8019.?Adulteration of oranges.     II. S.    *    *    *    v. OS Boxes of Oranges, More
or Ijess.     Def&nlt decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc??
tion.     (P. & D. No. 0886.    I. S. No. 7903-r.     S. No. C-1092.)
On February 26, 1919, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of Ohio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and con??
demnation of 98 boxes of oranges, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Columbus, Ohio, consigned by the Sutherland Fruit Co., Riverside,?
Calif., on February 12, 1919, alleging that the article had been transported from?
the State of California into the State of Ohio, and charging adulteration in?
violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The boxes were labeled, " Nature Brand?
Packed by Sutherland Fruit Co. California."
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Adulteraton of the article was alleged in the libel in that it consisted in part?
of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On June 16, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of?
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that?
the prodcct be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.