11688.?Adulteration of walnut meats.    U. S, v. 8 Cases and 6 Cases of Wal?
nut Meats. Product released tinder bond to be sorted. Decree of?
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction -with, respect to the bad?
portion. Good portion released to claimant. (F. & ? D. No. 17259.?
I. S. Nos. 8330-v, 8331-v.    S. No. W-1310.)
On February 8, 1923, the United. States attorney for the Western District?
of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in?
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the?
seizure and condemnation of 14 cases of walnut meats at Seattle, Wash., con??
signed by the Magnus Fruit Products Co., San Francisco, Calif., alleging that?
the article had been shipped from San Francisco, Calif., in part on or about?
December 11, 1922, and in part on or about January 19, 1923, and transported?
from the State of California into the State of Washington, and charging adul??
teration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. A portion of the article was?
labeled in part: (Case) " Selected Dark Amber Meats 50 Net * * * Mag??
nus Fruit Products Co. 301 Howard St. San Francisco, Calif." The remain??
der of the said article was labeled in part: (Case) "Dark Amber?
Meats    *    *    *    Magnus Fruit Products Co."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted wholly or in^part of a filthy, decomposed vegetable substance.
On April 6, 1923, the Magnus Fruit Products Co., San Francisco, Calif., hav??
ing appeared as claimant for the property, and an order of the court having?
been theretofore entered permitting the release of the product under bond to?
be reconditioned, and the result of the reconditioning having shown that 620?
pounds of the product were good and not in violation of law and that 30 pounds?
thereof were adulterated, a .decree of condemnation and forfeiture was entered?
with respect to the said 30 pounds of the product, and it was ordered by the?
court that it be destroyed by the United States marshal and that the remain??
ing 620 pounds be released to the said claimant.
HOWAKD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.