7661. Adulteration of evaporated apples. TJ, S. v. 230 Bo^es of Evaporated 
Apples, ponsent decree of condemnation, Product ordered re- 
leased to claimant. (F. & D. No. 11821. I. S. Nos. 12776-r, 1277S-r, 
S.  No.  W-53G )
On December 19, 1919, the United States attorney for the Pistrict of Mas- 
sachusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricultvire, filed in the 
District Coui;t of the United States for said district a libel of information pray- 
ing ihe seizure and condemnation of 220 boxes of evaporated apples, consigned 
by Joseph Travers & Sons, Sebastopol, Calif., on November 5, 1919, remaining 
at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped ahd transported 
from the State of California into the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food anct Drugs Act.
Adulteration of Ihe article was alleged in the libel of information for the 
reason that water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, 
and injuriously afl'cct its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part 
for the article.
On February IS, 1920, the California Packing Corporation, by Frank B. Priest, 
agent, having hied a satisfactory bond in conformity with section 10 of the act, 
judgment of condemnation was entered, and it wTas ordered by the court that 
the product be delivered to said claimant upon payment of the costs of the 
proceedings.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.