15746. Adulteration   of   tangerines.     V.   S.   v.   37   Baslcets   of   Tangerines.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F.
& D. No. 22712.    I. S. No. 21253-x.    S. No. 725.)
On March 29, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, 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 con- 
demnation of 37 baskets of tangerines, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Baltimore, Md., consigned about March 21, 1928, alleging that 
the article had been shipped by Prevatt & Co., from Seville, Fla., and trans- 
ported from the State of Florida into the State of Maryland, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that fruit- 
damaged citrus fruit had been substituted for the article, and for the further 
reason that a valuable constituent, namely, juice, had been wholly or in part 
extracted and in that it consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vege- 
table product.
On May 5, 1928, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.