4787. Adulteration of canned apples. U. S. + * * v. 41 Cases of Canned Apples * * *.?
Befault decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 7452. 1. S.?
No. 4829-1.   S. No. E-C19.)
On May 19, 1916, 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 41 cases of canned?
apples, consigned by the Consolidated Grocery Co., Tampa, Fla., remaining unsold?
in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had?
been shipped and transported from the State of Florida into the State of Maryland,?
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted?
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable matter in that the cans contain??
ing the goods were in large part rusty, rust-eaten, and corroded, and that a large per??
centage of same consisted of swells and leakers, and that the contents thereof were in?
a state of active fermentation.
On June 28, 1916, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of con??
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product?
should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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