13403.  Adulteration of red raspberries.     U. S. v. 90 Barrels, et al., of Rasp- 
berries.    Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.     Prod- 
uct   released   under   bond.       (P.    &   D.   No.    17848.      I.    S.    Nos.    649-v, 
15754-v.     S.  No. E-4492.) 
On October 8, 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 161 barrels of raspberries, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by  the Puyallup &  Sumner Fruit Growers'  Assoc,  from  Seattle,  Wash.,  in 
part on or about July 23, 1923, and in part on or about July 27, 1923, and 
transported from the State of Washington 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 libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of partially decomposed raspberries.
On May 11, 1925, the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers' Assoc, Puyallup, 
Wash., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having con- 
sented 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 $3,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, con- 
ditioned in part that the bad portion be separated from the good portion under 
the supervision of this department, and the bad portion destroyed or denatured.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.