25152. Carbonated grape wine.    (F.D.C. No. 42052.    S. No. 23-691 P.)
QUANTITY :   72 cases, 12    %-qt. jugs each, at Los Angeles, Calif
SHIPPED:   2-28-58, from Rotterdam, Holland. 
£ LABEL IN PART:  (Jug)  -'Product of Portugal — Lancers A Rose Carbonated 
Grape Wine    Vintage 1953 - Lisbon, Portugal."
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION : The article represented the damaged portion of a 
lot of 222 cases which was stored in the hold of the SS Loch Garth. The 
article was stored upright and upside down in a locker which was flooded 
by water from a broken ship waterline, resulting in the cases being immersed 
in blackened, floor-washed water.
Examination showed that some of the cases were completely water-soaked 
and falling apart. Some of the bottles were covered with a black slime, labels 
were damaged, mold had grown over the bottles and arougd the necks, and 
some of the lead seals around the top of the bottles were loose.
I LIBELED :    7-23-58, S. Dist. Calif. 
CHARGE:    402(a) (3)—the article was unfit for food by reason of having been
I; contaminated with dirty water; and 402(a)(4)—the article had been held 
under insanitary conditions due to having been immersed in dirty water.
DISPOSITION :    8-27-58.    Default—destruction.
|5153. Carbonated grape wine.    (F.D.C. No. 42053.    S. No. 23-904 P.)
QUANTITY :   22 cases, 12   %-qt. jugs each, and 3 cases, 24   %-pt. btls. each, at 
iJLos Angeles, Calif.
|?filed:    4-28-58, from Lisbon, Portugal.
for
BEL IN PART:    (Jug and btl.) "Product of Portugal—Lancers   A Rose Car- 
bonated Grape Wine—Vintage 1953—Lisbon, Portugal." 
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION: The article represented a portion of a shipment
|j which was stored in the hold of the SS Loch Garth.   The storage area was 
flooded when a ship's water main broke, immersing the article in dirty water. 
Examination showed that the article was contained in water-damaged cases, 
bottles, and jugs.
LIBELED :    7-24-58, S. Dist. Calif.
igUfiGE:   402(a) (4)—the article had been held under insanitary conditions due 
JP having been immersed in dirty water. 
POSITION      8-27-58.    Default—destruction.