17332. Adulteration of grapefruit.     U. S. v. 360 Boxes, et al., of Grapefruit.
Product released under bond to be salvaged.     (F. & D. No.  24843. 
I. S. Nos. 018526, 018527.    S. No. 2880.)
On February 12, 1930, the United States attorney for the District of Utah, 
acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district libels praying seizure and condemnation 
of 720 boxes of grapfruit, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Salt 
Lake City, Utah, alleging that the article had been shipped by the Sprowl Fruit 
Co., from Mission, Tex., in part on or about February 1, 1930, and in part on or 
about February 3, 1930, and transported from the State of Texas into the State 
of Utah, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The 
article was labeled in part: " Packed and Shipped by Sprowl Fruit Co., Mission, 
Texas."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable product; in that fruit-damaged 
fruit had been substituted for edible citrus fruit, which the article purported to 
be; and in that a valuable constituent, juice, had been wholly or in part 
abstracted from the article.
On February 21, 1930, E. V. Sprowl, Mission, Tex., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libels and having paid costs and executed bonds totaling 
$3,000, conditioned upon compliance with the orders of the court, decrees were 
entered ordering that the product be released to the said claimant to be salvaged 
under the supervision of this department, and the fruit-damaged and adulterated 
fruit destroyed or disposed of according to the regulations of this department.
ABTHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.