19609. Adulteration of   peKans.    V.   S.   v.   259   Sacks   of   PeKans.    Product
ordered released under bond to be sorted and bad portion de- 
stroyed. (F. & D. Nos. 27691, 27692. I. S. Nos. 41146 to 41150, incl., 
41201.    S. No. 5768.)
Samples of pecans from the shipments 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 January 25, 1932, 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 259 sacks of pecans, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce by the Woodson Pecan Co., from Albany, Ga., in part on or about 
December 5, 1931, and in part on or about December 16, 1931, 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 con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On February 24, 1932, the Woodson Pecan Co., Albany, Ga., having appeared 
as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of the libel, 
and the court having found that the unfit portion of the product might be 
separated from the portion suitable for human consumption, a decree was 
entered ordering release of the product to the claimant upon the execution of 
a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or 
otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of the Federal food and drugs 
act, and all other laws, and further conditioned that the unfit portion be de- 
stroyed and that claimant pay costs of the proceedings.
AETHTTB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.