5096. Adulteration of grapefruit. U. S. v, 1 Carload of Bulk Grapefruit. 
Decree of condemnation and. forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (P. & D. No. 21782.    I. S. No. 12484-x.    S. No. C-5417.)
[On March 17, 1927, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
$jtio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
ict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
mdemnation of 1 carload of bulk grapefruit, remaining unsold in the origi-
Kal car, consigned by F. N. Hicks, Thonotosassa, Fla., about March 11, 1927,
ijleging   that   the   article   had   been   shipped   in   interstate   commerce   from
"* lonotosassa, Fla., into the State ot Ohio, and charging adulteration in viola- 
ton of the food and drugs act. 
^-Examination of the article by this department showed that it consisted in
iole or in part of fruit-damaged fruit.
jjgKlt was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
feted of a decomposed vegetable substance. 
|On March 24, 1927, the I. N. Price Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, having appeared
Sjl" claimant and  having admitted the allegations'  of  the  libel,  judgment of
ldemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court
it the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs
jjfthe proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, condi-
|bned in part that it be salvaged under the supervision of this department, 
removing all decomposed fruit for destruction.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.