NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2157.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF FIGS.
On July 3, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of 
Maryland, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a 
libel for the seizure and condemnation of 12 boxes and 3 bags of figs 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages upon the prem- 
ises of the Merchants & Miners Transportation Co., Baltimore, Md., 
alleging that the product had been shipped from the State of Vir- 
ginia into the State of Maryland, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: "Summit 
Brand Armas Fillipachi & Co., Smyrna, Turkey. A. F. C. Brand 
Al.," on the boxes, while the bags bore shipping tags with the fol- 
lowing inscription, "Virginia Fruit & Produce Co. Wholesale Com- 
mission Merchants, Newport News, Va. S. J. Van Lill Co., Balti- 
more, Md."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed animal and vege- 
table substance, to wit, worms, worm excreta, sugar mites, and moldy 
and worm-eaten figs.
On August 6, 1912, no claimant having appeared for the property, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered and it was 
further ordered that the product should be destroyed by the United 
States marshal.
W. M. HATS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 28, 1912.
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