14611. Adulteration   of   pears.     U.   S.   v.   504   Baskets    of   Pears.     D>cree
ordering product released under bond entered by consent./ (j\ & 
B. No. 21259.    I. S. Nos. 12601-x, 12602-x.    S. No. C-3037.)
On August 21, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying Seizure and con- 
demnation of 504 baskets of pears, at Omaha, Nebr., alleging i that tlie article 
had been shipped by the Grand Junction Fruit Growers Assolc., froia Clifton, 
Colo., on or about August 16, 1926, and transported from the\ State of Colo- 
rado into the State of Nebraska, and charging adulteration an violation of 
the food and drugs act. 
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Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the /reason that it 
contained an added poisonous ingredient which might have rendered it in- 
jurious to health, to wit, arsenic. 
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On August 24, 1926, the Grand Junction Fruit Growers Assoc., Clifton, Colo., 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented that judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture be entered, a decree ;was entered, finding 
the product adulterated, and it was ordered by the court that the said product 
be released to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it be 
salvaged and the adulterated pears destroyed, and that after inspection by 
a representative of this department the unadulterated portion be released 
without conditions.
W. M. JABDUNE, Secretary of Agriculture.
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