5306. Adulteration of grapefruit. U. S. * * * v. 1059 Boxes of Grajse- 
fruit. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Fit por- 
tion  ordered released on Bond.     Inst portion ordered  destroyed.
(F. & D. No. 7753.    I. S. Nos. 1032-m, 1033-m, 1034-m.    S. No. B-697.)
On October 10, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 1,059 boxes of grapefruit, consigned by the La Isabella Grove 
Plantation Co., San Juan, P. R., and remaining unsold in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped on or 
about October 4, 1916, and transported from the Island of Porto Rico into the 
State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that imma- 
ture and green grapefruit had been substituted wholly or in part for said 
article; and for the further reason that the article had been colored, coated, 
and stained in a manner whereby damage and inferiority were concealed.
On October 17, 1916, the said La Isabella Grove Plantation Co., claimant, 
having consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the grapefruit should be examined 
by a representative of the Department of Agriculture and that the portion 
found free from adulteration should be released to said claimant upon the pay- 
ment of the costs of the proceedings and the expenses incident to said exami- 
nation and the execution of a bond in the sum of $4,000, in conformity with 
section 10 of the act. The portion of the product found to be unfit for food pur- 
poses was destroyed.
R. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.