13301. Adulteration   of  orang-c*.     V.   S.   v.  315   Caves   of  Orangres.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 19811.    I.  S. No. 21136-v.     S. No.  W-1671.)
On February 19, 1925, 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 315 cases of oranges, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Mutual Orange Distributors, from Wilmington, Calif., February 8, 1925, and 
transported from the State of California into the State of Washington, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: (Case) "California Oranges * * * Dependable Brand 
Cooperative Orange Distributors California Member Mutual Orange Distribu- 
tors California."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a sub- 
stance, an inedible product, had been substituted wholly or in part for the said 
article.
On March 3, 1925, the Pacific Fruit & Produce Co., Seattle, Wash., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and 
it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant 
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that it be repacked under the supervision of this department, so as to eliminate 
the portion unfit for consumption.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.