10349.?Adulteration of  oranges.    XJ.  S.     *     *     *     v. 462 Boxes  of Oranges.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released?
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 16070.    I. S. No. 5557-t.     S. No. Er-3789.)
On February 23, 1922, the United States attorney for the District of Rhode?
Island, 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 con??
demnation of 462 boxes of oranges, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Providence, R. I., alleging that the article had been shipped by?
F. H. Speich & Co., from Casa Blanca, Calif., February 8, 1922, and transported?
from the State of California into the State of Rhode Island, and charging adul??
teration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. A portion of the article was?
labeled in part: " Carnation Brand F. H. Speich & Co., Riverside, California,?
Wash. Navels." The remainder of the article was labeled in part: " Mountain?
Lion Brand    *    *    *    Wash. Navels."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con??
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On March 3, 1922, F. H. Speich & Co., Riverside, Calif., claimant, having ad??
mitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to a decree, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product be released to said claimant upon payment of the costs of the?
proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $3,500, in conformity?
with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be disposed of under the?
supervision of this department.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.