26904. Adulteration of Brazil nuts and filberts.     U. S. v. 17 Bags of Brazil Nuts
(and other libel proceedings). Portions of products released under 
bond for segregation and destruction of unfit nuts. Remainder con- 
demned and ordered delivered to charitable institution on condition 
that the decomposed nuts be destroyed. (F. & D. nos. 38817, 38849, 
38850, 38863, 38869. Sample nos. 21499-C, 21504-C, 21505-C, 21509-C, 
21513-C, 21515-C.)
These cases involved nuts that were in part moldy, rancid, and decomposed.
On December 14, 17, 21, and 22, 1936, the United States attorney for the 
Eastern District of Missouri, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, filed in the district court five libels praying seizure and condemnation 
of 55 bags of Brazil nuts and 50 bags of filberts at St. Louis, Mo., alleging 
that they had been shipped in interstate commerce by the William A. Camp 
Co., Inc., from New York, N. Y., in part on or about October 17, 1936, and 
in part on or about November 10, 1936, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act.
The articles were alleged to be adulterated in that they consisted in whole 
or in part of decomposed vegetable substances.
On December 28, 1936, the William A. Camp Co., Inc., having appeared as 
claimant for all goods seized, with the exception of one lot consisting of 5 
bags of Brazil nuts, and having admitted the allegations of the libels filed in 
the four proceedings involved, judgments were entered ordering that the nuts 
so claimed be released under bond conditioned that the unfit portions be sorted 
out and destroyed. On February 10, 1937, no claim having been entered for 
the remaining lot, judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered 
that it be delivered to a charitable institution on condition that the nuts be 
cracked and all bad ones destroyed.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.