NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1037.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Pood and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OP MUSHROOMS.
On February T, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Western 
District of Pennsylvania, acting upon the report by the Secretary 
of. Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for 
said district a libel, praying condemnation and forfeiture of a case 
of dried mushrooms found on the premises' located at Nos. 804-806- 
808 Liberty Avenue, in the city of Pittsburg.
Examination of samples from said consignment made by the Bu- 
reau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture 
showed them to contain more or less worms and worm excreta. 
The libel alleged that the mushrooms after transportation from New 
York into Pennsylvania remained in the original unbroken pack- 
ages and were adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act 
of June 30, 1906, because they consisted in whole or in part of a 
filthy, putrid, or decomposed animal or vegetable substance, and were 
therefore liable to seizure for confiscation.
On February 24, 1911, Arbuckle & Co. appeared and filed answer 
to said libel in which they made no denial of the statements in the 
libel, but admitted that the said mushrooms were unfit for human 
food. Accordingly a decree was entered by the court on February 
25, 1911, finding said product to consist in whole or in part of a de- 
composed vegetable substance, and that the United States was enti- 
tled to the decree of condemnation as prayed for in the libel. Ac- 
cordingly on that date a decree was entered, condemning and for- 
feiting the goods to the United States, and ordering their destruction 
by the marshal.
WILLIS L. MOORE, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 3,1911.
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