14918.?Adulteration of oranges. TJ. S. v. 15 Cases of Oranges. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 21698. I. S. No. 13720-x. S. No. E-5993.) On February 17, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of? Pennsylvania, 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? condemnation of 15 cases of oranges, remaining in the original unbroken pack?? ages at Philadelphia, Pa., consigned by the Winter Garden Citrus Growers,? Winter Garden, Fla., alleging that the article had been shipped from Winter? Garden, Fla., on or about February 8, 1927, and transported from the State of? Florida into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration in violation? of the food and drugs act. Examination of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department? showed that it consisted in whole or in part of frost-damaged fruit. It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it consisted? in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance. On March 9, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of? condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that? the product be destroyed by the United States marshal. W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.