15025. Adulteration of dried figs.     U.  S. v. S7 Boxes  of Adulterated  Dried
Fig's. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and? destruc- 
tion.    (F. & D. No. 21707.    I. S. No. 10728-x.    S. No. W-2103.)
On March 7, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
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 87 boxes of dried figs, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Port- 
land, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped by the S. F. Warehouse 
Co., from San Francisco, Calif., on or about November 5, 1926, and transported 
from the State of California into the State of Oregon, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Cali- 
myrna Figs. Packed and Guaranteed by Melville B. Levi. * * * Clovis, 
California."
It was alleged in the libel that tlie article was adulterated, in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable sub- 
stance, and in that filthy, decomposed, and putrid dried figs had been substituted 
for normal dried figs of good commercial quality.
On April 6, 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.