19599. Adulteration of -walnut meats.    U. S. v. 14 Boxes of Walnut Bleats.
Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. No. 27730.    I. S. No. 52012.    S. No. 5817.)
Samples of walnut meats from the interstate shipment involved in this 
action having been found to be decomposed and wormy, the Secretary of 
Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Eastern 
District of Wisconsin.
On February 8, 1932, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 14 boxes of walnut meats, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Milwaukee, Wis., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, on or about July 29, 1931, from Boston, Mass., to Mil- 
waukee, Wis., by the Northeastern Importing Co., of Boston, Mass., and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On March 15, 1932, 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.
ABTHTTB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.