15652.?Adulteration  of dried figs.    XJ.  S. v.  1200 Boxes and  1200 Boxes  of
fDried tFigs.     Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.
sBuotoct i released-vunder bond.     (F.  & D.  No. 217-44.    I.  S. Nos.  75-x,?
17001-x.    S. No.
E^6062.)
On or;about March 22, 1927,, the United States attorney for the Eastern Dis??
trict of New Yorkiiiactingupon a report by the Secretary of. Agriculture, filed?
in the District Court of the United States for said district a liber praying seizure?
and condemnation of 2,400 boxes of driedfigs, remaining in the original, unbroken?
packages at Brooklyn,: N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by?
?Rosenberg Bros. & Co., from San Francisco, Calif., on or about February 21,?
1927, and had been transported from the State of California into the State of?
New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article: was adulterated in that it consisted?
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On September 21, 1927, Rosenberg:Bros. & Co., San Francisco, Calif., claim??
ants, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the?
entry of a decree, judgment of' condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and?
it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimants,?
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a. bond in?
the sum-of $7,500, conditioned in ,part that it be relabeled, "Not For Human?
Consumption," and not be used for human consumption or for purposes other?
than distillat'on of alcohol and hog feed.
W. ,M. JARDINB, Secretary of Agrwwltwre.