F. & D. No. 2051.
S. No. 721.	
Issued July 15, 1911.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 957, FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
ADULTERATION OF SHELLED PEANUTS.
On or about October 31, 1910, the Bain Peanut Company, Suffolk,?
Va., shipped from the State of Virginia into the State of Maryland?
10 bags of a food product labeled: " $:2 Spanish Shelled Peanuts."?
A sample from this shipment was procured and examined by the?
Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture, and?
the nuts were found to possess a rancid odor and 92.5 per cent of?
them were found to be worm-eaten.
As it appeared from the findings of the analyst and report thereon?
that the product was adulterated within the meaning of the Food and?
Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, and was liable to seizure under section?
10 of the act, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the facts to the?
United States attorney for the District of Maryland.
On November 3, 1910, a libel was filed in the District Court of the?
United States for said district against the said 10 bags of shelled?
peanuts, charging the above shipment and alleging that the product?
so shipped was adulterated because it consisted in part of a filthy?
and decomposed vegetable substance, to wit, 92.5 per cent of worm-?
eaten nuts, and praying seizure, condemnation, and forfeiture of the?
product.
On February 28, 1911, the cause came on for hearing, and no?
claimant to the product having appeared and no answer having?
been filed to the allegation of the above libel, the court being fully?
informed in the premises issued its decree condemning and forfeit??
ing the product to the use of the United States for the cause alleged?
in the above libel and ordering the destruction of the product by the?
marshal of said district.
This notice is given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs?
Act of June 30, 1906.
JAMES WILSON,?
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 15,1911.
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