G99S. Adulteration of walnut wulp. IT. S. * * * v. 2 Cases o? Walnut?
Pulp. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc??
tion.     (P. & D. No. 9534.    I. S. No. 15638-r.    S. No. E-1182.)
On December 12, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Mary??
land, 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 con??
demnation of 2 cases of walnut pulp, consigned on November 9, 1918, remaining?
unsold in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the?
article had been shipped by Birdsong Brothers, New York, N. Y., and trans??
ported from the State of New York 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 whole oi* in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable and?
animal substance.
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On January 6, 1919, 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 be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.