6213, Adulteration of grapefruit. CfS. * * * T. 457 JBoxejs o? Gi'TOefrjpt.?
Befaiilt decree of eoikdejjijaatioii s.ad forfeiture,. G?M>?1 portion sold.?
Unfit portion ordered destroyed.     (F. & D. No. 8791.    I. S. No. 16524-p.
S. No. W-214.)
On or about January 25, 1918, the United States attorney for the district of?
Colorado, 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 457 boxes of grapefruit, consigned by the H. C. Schradex, Co.,?
Homestead, Fla., remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Colo??
rado Springs, Colo., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about Janu??
ary 6, 1918, and transported from the State of Florida into the State of Colo??
rado, 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?
had been frozen, and the tissues thereof weje undergoing rapid disintegration?
as a result of said freezing and consisted in part of bitter, soft, mushy, and?
partly decomposed grapefruit.
On January ?0, 1918^, it appearing to the court that a portion oi the product?
was not unfit for food, an order was entered directing the marshal 'to permit a?
representative of this department to assort the grapefruit, and to'sell through?
some reputable commission firm such of the fruit as was found fit for food,?
and to return the adulterated and unfit portions thereof to the marshal. On?
March 19, 1918, the case having come on for final disposition, the action of the?
representative of this department in the sorting and selling of the grapefruit?
was approved and confirmed, .and it was found fcy the court that the grape??
fruit held by the marshal was adulterated, and it was ordered that the saiae?
should be condemned and forfeited, and destroyed by the United States marshal.
G. I. CHRISTIE, Avting Secretary oj Agriculture.
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