15050. Adulteration of   grapefruit.     TJ.    S.   v.   372   Boxes of   Adulterated 
Grapefruit.      Consent   decree    of    condemnation and   forfeiture^. 
Product released under bond.     (F. & D. No. 21784. I. S. No. 10731-x 
S. No.  W-2115.)
On or about March 10, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of 
Oregon, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 372 boxes of grapefruit, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped by the- 
Chester C. Fosgate Co., from Forest City, Fla., on or about February 23, 1927, 
and transported from the State of Florida into the State of Oregon, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: " Fidelity Brand. Chester C. Fosgate Co., Orlando, Fla." 
Examination of the article by this department showed that it consisted in 
I whole or in part of fruit-damaged fruit.
I It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con-
% sisted in whole or in part of an inedible product and in that an inedible product
>: had been substituted for normal grapefruit of good commercial quality.
\ On March 14, 1927, the Chester C. Fosgate Co., Orlando, Fla., having ap-
| peared as claimant for the property 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
I payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the
I sum of $500, conditioned in part that it not be sold or otherwise disposed of
contrary to law.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.