3572. Adulteration of dried apples. U. S. v. 10 Bags * * * Dried Apples. Default decree?
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 5601. I. S. No. 4509-h.?
S. No. 2126.)
On or about February 27, 1914, the United States attorney for the District of Colum??
bia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme Court?
of the District aforesaid, holding a District Court, a libel for the seizure and condemna??
tion of 10 bags, more or less, of dried apples, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Washington, D. C, alleging that the product had been transported from?
the State of Virginia into the District of Columbia, and charging adulteration in?
violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: "A. W. Kelley &?
Company Commission Merchants Successors to Kelley & Chamberlin 911 La. Ave.?
and 912 C. St., N. W.,?Washington, D. C. E. C. Sheppard, Stuart, Va., P. 0.?
Danbury, N. C."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that the same?
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed vegetable substance,?
and was covered with excreta, for which reasons the same was absolutely unfit for?
human consumption, and therefore adulterated.
On November 20, 1914, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of?
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the?
product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
D. F. HOUSTON, Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 17, 1915.
BUREAU   OF   CHEMISTRY.
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