28625. Adulteration of Brazil nuts.    U. S. v. 130 Bags of Brazil Nuts.    Decree
of condemnation.     Product released under bond.     (F. & D. No.  41186. 
Sample No. 66443-C.)
This product was in part moldy and decomposed.
On December 18, 1937, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 130 bags of Brazil nuts at 
Baltimore Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about September 24, 1937, from New York, N. Y., by W. A. 
Higgins & Co., Inc., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On January 19, 1938, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Baltimore, Md., 
having appeared as claimant, judgment of condemnation was entered and the 
product was ordered released under bond conditioned that it not be disposed 
of contrary to law.
W. B. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.