13986. Adulteration of shelled dried chestnuts. U. S. v. SO Sacks of Shelled 
Dried Chestnuts. Consent decree of condemnation and forfei- 
ture.     Product  released under bond.     (F.  & D. No. 20634.    I.  S.  No.
8084-x.    S. No. E-5583.)
On November 20, 1925, 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 80 sacks of shelled dried chestnuts, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by Luigi Zaverio Cavargna, from Genoa, Italy, in part on or about 
January 15, 1925, and in part on or about January 25, 1925, 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 December 5, 1925, F. Romeo & 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 $1,200, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the 
bad portion be separated from the good portion and the former destroyed or 
denatured under the supervision of this department.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.