10782.?Adulteration  of  oranges.     U.   S.   v.   IS Dozen  Botes .of  Decomposed
Oranges. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod??
uct released on bond for sorting and destruction of the adulter??
ated oranges.     (P. & D. No. 15790.    I. S. No. 11194-t.    S. No. W-1058.)
On March 21, 1922, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon,?
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 12 dozen boxes of decomposed oranges, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped on?
March 6, 1922, by the Riverside Heights Orange .Growers Assoc, Riverside.?
Calif., and transported from the State of California into the State of Oregon,?
and charging adulteration in violation of Food and Drugs Act. The article?
was labeled in part: " W Navels Pepper Leaf Brand Riverside Heights Orange?
Growers Association, Riverside, Calif."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that de??
composed and frozen and dried oranges had been substituted for normal oranges?
of good commercial quality.
On April 3, 1922, .the California Fruit Growers Exchange, claimant, having?
admitted the material allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and?
forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product might?
be released to said claimant, or any of its duly authorized agents, 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, conditioned in part that the?
product be sorted under the supervision of this department, and it was further?
ordered that the frozen and damaged oranges be destroyed by the United?
States marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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