7205. Adulteration of oranges.   U. S.   *   *   *   v. 4814 Boxes of Oranges.   Consent decree of
condemnation and forfeiture.   Good portion of product ordered released on bond. 
Unfit portion ordered destroyed or denatured.   (F. & D. No. 6951.   I. S. No. 15436-r.
S. No. E-1276.)
On April 3,1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, 
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 461$ 
boxes of oranges, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at New York, 
N. Y., consigned on March 8, 1919, alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
California Fruit Growers Exchange, Walnut, Cal., and transported from the State of
California 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 it consisted in 
whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance, in that a large proportion of 
the oranges were fruited, and 60 per cent of them exhibited marked drying in 20 per 
cent or more of area.
On April 7, 1919, the San Antonio Fruit Exchange, Pomona, Cal., claimant, having 
consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation-and forfeiture was entered, and it 
was ordered by the court that the product should be released to said claimant upon 
the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $1,500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned that the product should 
be resorted under the supervision of a representative of this department, such portion 
as might be found fit for manufacture into jelly and marmalade to be released to said 
claimant for that purpose, and the remainder to be destroyed or denatured.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.