12945. Adulteration   of   Brazil   nuts.     V.   S.   v.   590   Bags*   et   al.,   of   Brazil
Nuts. Decrees entered ordering: product released under bond to 
toe reconditioned. (F. & D. Nos. 19107, 19108. I. S. Nos, 12870-v, 
13175-v, 13995-v.    S. Nos. EM1997, E-4998.)
On November 6, 1924, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district libels praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 2,588 bags of Brazil nuts, remaining unsold in the 
original packages at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by A. H. Alden, Ltd., 823 bags from Manaos, Brazil, on February 22, 1924, and 
1,765 bags from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 3, 1924, and transported 
from a foreign country into the State of New York, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable 
substance.
On November 21, 1924, J. B. Inderrieden Co., Chicago, Ill., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, and having admitted the allegations of the 
libels, judgments of the court were entered, ordering the product released to 
the said claimant upon the execution of bonds in the aggregate sum of $18,000, 
in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the nuts be 
cracked and sorted and disposed of under the supervision of this department.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.