5475. Adulteration of   oranges.     IT.   S.     *     *     *     v.   306- Boxes     *     *     *     at
Oraiiiges. Ceusest cleevee of eoxnileiiM&aticM* and forfeiture Good 
portion, release*! on fo-ĞMaĞlĞ Unfit i>ox-tioBi arches?ea destroyed, 
(F. & D. No. 8157.    I. S. No. 10767-m.    S. No. C-674.)
On March 8, 1917, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Iowa, 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 condem- 
nation of 396 boxes of oranges remaining unsold in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Dubuque, Iowa, alleging that the article had been shipped on or about 
February 21, 1917, by D. Kellerman, Lindsay, Cal., and transported from the 
State of California into the State of Iowa, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled: " Sunbright Brand 
California Oranges."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that 66.6 per cent showed drying in over 20 per cent of the sections of said 
product and that 16.6 per cent of the oranges were rotten and decomposed.
On March 19, 1917, D. Kellerman, Pittsburgh, Pa., claimant, having consented 
to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the article should be released to said claimant upon 
the payment of the costs of the proceedings and other expenses and the execu- 
tion of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act. 
conditioned in part that the product should be inspected by an inspector of this 
department, and that the portion found unfit for food should be destroyed and 
the good portion delivered to said claimant.
CLARENCE OUSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.