14995.?Adulteration of oranges.    TJ. S. v. 480 Bushels of Oranges in Bulk.
Product taken down under bond.    Bad portion forfeited and de??
stroyed.    Remainder released.     (F.  & D. No. 21746.     I.  S.  No.  7514-x.
S. No. E>-5835.)
On March 11, 1927, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and?
condemnation of 480 bushels of oranges, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Savannah, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped by the
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Fruit Distributors, Inc., from Bartow, Fla., March 5, 1927, and transported?
from the State of Florida into the State of Georgia, and charging adulteration?
in violation of the food and drugs act.
Examination of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department?
showed that it was composed of frost-damaged fruit.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it consisted?
in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance, and in that a sub??
stance, to wit, excessively dried oranges, had been substituted in whole or in?
part for the said article.
On March 28, 1927, the Fruit Distributors, Inc., claimant, having admitted?
the allegations of the libel, and the product having been taken down under?
bond and reconditioned, and approximately one-half of the oranges having?
been found fit for food, a decree was entered, forfeiting the portion unfit for?
food and ordering that it be destroyed by the United States marshal, and it?
was further ordered by the court that the portion fit for food be released to?
the said claimant.
W. M. JARDINE. Secretary of Agriculture.