NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2294.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTEEATION OF PRUNES.
On August 6, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis- 
trict libels for the seizure and condemnation of 135 boxes of prunes, 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in the posses- 
sion of John H. Leslie & Co., Chicago, Ill., alleging that the product 
had been shipped on July 27, 1912, by the Kickabush Grocery Co., 
Wausau, Wis., and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the 
State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: " Golden Spike—Oro— 
Nonpareil."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libels for the reason 
that it consisted in part of filthy and decomposed vegetable matter, 
that is to say, the prunes were wet and had become fermented, and 
were unfit for human food.
On November 20, 1912, no claimant having appeared for the prop- 
erty, 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. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 7, 1913.
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