13933. Adulteration of pistachio nuts.    V. S. v. 20 Cases of Pistachio Nuts.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased   under   bond.     (F.   &   D.   No.   20570.     I.   S.   No.   7049-x.     S.   No.
E-5534.)
On November 10, 1925, the United States attorney for the Southern Dis- 
trict 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 20 cases of pistachio nuts, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by Chas. Balit & Co., from Aleppo, Syria, on or about December 
4. 1024, 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 libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On November 30, 1925, William Herron & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., 
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 $1,500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned 
in part that the good nuts be separated from the bad and the latter destroyed 
or denatured.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.