8524.?Adulteration and misbranding of honey.   TJ. S.   *   *   *   v. 33 5-Pounl Cans, 14 21-
Pound Cans, and 4 lg-Pound Cans of Honey.   Default decree of condemnation,?
forfeiture, and destruction.   (F. & D. No. 10847.   I. S. No. 15871-r.   S. No. E-1646.)
On July 17, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western District of Virginia,?
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 23 5-pound?
cans, 14 2J-pound cans, and 4 If-pound cans of honey, remaining unsold in the original?
unbroken packages at Graham, Va., alleging that the article had been shipped on or?
about May 10, 1919, by W. B. Blakley, Keystone, W. Va., and transported from the?
State of West Virginia into the State of Virginia, and charging adulteration and mis??
branding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part,?
"Blakley's B Honey blended, W. B. Blakley & Co., makers, Winston-Salem; N. C,?
and Danville, Va.".
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Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that invert Sugar?
and sucrose had been mixed and packed with, and substituted wholly or in part for,?
the article. Adulteration was alleged in substance for the further reason that the?
article was mixed in a manner whereby inferiority was concealed.
Misbranding was alleged in substance for the reason that the cans containing the?
article were labeled "Blakley's B Honey blended," which was false and misleading?
and deceived and misled the purchaser. Misbranding was alleged for the further?
reason that the article was an imitation of, and was offered for sale under the distinctive?
name of, another article.
On October 15, 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 be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.