12152. Adulteration of walnut meats.     IT.   S.  v.  2 Cases  of Walnut  Meatsv.
Default    decree    ordering:    destruction   of   product.      (F.   &   D.    No.
17378.    I. S. No. 7691-v.     S. No. W-1355.)
On March 24, 1923, the United States attorney for the District of Utah, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district i libel praying the seizure and 
condemnation of 2 cases of walnut meats, remaining in the original unbroken' 
packages at Salt Lake City, Utah, alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Magnus Fruit Products Co., from San Francisco, Calif., on or about 
February 23, 1923, and transported from the State of California into the1 
State of Utah, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs- 
Act. The article was labeled in part: " Magnus Fruit Products Company 
*    *    *    San Francisco, California."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that it consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed vegetable 
substance.
On January 3, 1924, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of the court was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
HOWABD M. GOKE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.