5408.  Adulteration of oranges.    TJ. S.   *   *    *   "t. 207 Boxes of Orasig-es.    De- 
fault  decree   of  condeiftinatioi).,  forfeiture,  and   destruction.      (F.   &  D.
No. 7945.    I. S. No. 2I331~m.    S. No. W-158.)
On January 2, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
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 
297 boxes of oranges labeled: " Vulcan Brand, American Fruit Distrs. of Cali- 
fornia Main Office Los Angeles," remaining unsold in the original unbroken 
packages at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped on De- 
cember 25,1916, hy the American Fruit Distributors of California, Los Angeles, 
Cal., and transported from the State of California into the State of Oregon, 
and charging adulteration In violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that it consisted In whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable sub- 
stance, and that fruited and damaged oranges had been substituted for normal 
oranges of good commercial quality.
On February 5, 1917, 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 he destroyed by the United States marshal.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.