7255. Adulteration of   oranges.   TJ.    S.   *    *    *   v.   448   Boxes    of   Oranges.
Consent    decree    of   condemnation    and    forfeiture.    Good    portion
ordered released on bond.     Unlit portion  ordered destroyed.     (F. &
D. No. 10029.    I. S. No. 2253-r.     S. No.  C-1144.)
On or about March 29, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern Dis- 
trict of Illinois, 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 448 boxes of oranges, at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped on March 19, 1919, by T. H. Peppers Co., Upland, Calif., and 
transported from the State of California into the State of Illinois, 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 part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On April 10, 1919, R. Krasnow & Sons, Pittsburgh, Pa., claimant, having con- 
sented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and- 
it was ordered by the court that the product be sorted under the supervision 
of a representative of this department, the good portion to be released to said 
claimant upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of 
a bond in the sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, and the 
unfit portion to be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.