28563. Adulteration of shelled peanuts.    U. S. v. 13 Bass and 12 Bass of Shelled
Peanuts.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D.
Nos. 40904, 41029.   Sample Nos. 43447-C, 61236-C.)
This product was found to be dirty.
On November 23 and December 7, 1937, the United States attorney for the 
Eastern District of Louisiana, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 25 bags 
of shelled peanuts at New Orleans, La., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about November 3,1937, by Barnhart & Pence from 
Valdosta, Ga., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in 
part of a filthy vegetable substance.
On January 28, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemna- 
tion were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.