18979. Adulteration of  frozen   strawberries.     U.   S.   v.   18  Barrels   of   Cold
Packed Stra-wberries. Default decree of condemnation, for- 
feiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 26510. I. S. No. 35484. S. No. 
4825.)
Samples of frozen strawberries from the shipment herein described having 
been found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.
On June 19, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 18 barrels of frozen strawberries, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Rahal Packing Co., Plant City, Fla., on or about March 30, 1931, and 
had been transported from the State of Florida into the State of Missouri, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labelel in part: " The Rahal Packington Co., Rahals Fancy Cold Packed Straw- 
berries   *   *   *   Cleveland, Ohio."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On November 6, 1931, 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.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.