20725. Adulteration of   frozen   loganberries.     IT.   S.   v.   SO  Boxes   of   Frozen
Loganberries. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction.     (F. & D. no. 29689.    Sample no. 30748-A.)
This action involved an interstate shipment of frozen loganberries that were 
worm-infested and in part worm-eaten.
On December 28, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of California,  acting upon  a  report by  the  Secretary of Agriculture,  filed
in the District Court of the United States a libel praying seizure and con/ 
demnation of 50 boxes of frozen loganberries, remaining in the original un 
broken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about December 21, 1932, by the S. A. 
Moffett Co., from Seattle, Wash., to San Francisco, Calif., 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 whole or in part of a filthy vegetable substance.
On January 25, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.