11916. Adulteration of oranges.    IT. S. v. 16 Boxes of Oranges.    Decree en 
tered ordering destruction of product. (F. & D. No. 17329. I. S. No, 
1364-v.    S. No. E-4322.)
On March 8, 1923, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
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 16 boxes of oranges, consigned February 25, 1923, remaining 
in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Standard Growers Exchange, from Savannah, Ga., 
and transported from the State of Georgia into the State of Maryland, an<3 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that an 
inedible product, to wit, dry oranges, had been substituted in whole or in part 
for an edible product, to wit, juicy oranges, which the article purported to be.
On March 16, 1923, no claimant having appeared for the property, a decree 
of the court was entered ordering the destruction of the product.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.