15105. Adulteration of grapefruit.    If. S. v. 800 Boxes of Grapefruit.    Con>,
sent   decree   of  condemnation   and   forfeiture.    Product   released'^ 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 21820.    I. S. No. 16408-x.    S. No. E-6083.)
On March 26, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Maine, 
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 condem- 
nation of 300 boxes of grapefruit, remaining in the original unbroken packages'
J Auburn, Me., consigned about March 14, 1927, alleging that the article had
|een shipped by the Lake Garfield Citrus Exchange, Lake Garfield, Fla., and
Iransported from the State of Florida into the State of Maine, and charging
iUulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
|- Examination of the article by this department showed that it consisted in
phole or in part of fruit-damaged fruit. 
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it consisted
$& whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
I On April 4, 1927, the Florida Citrus Exchange, a Florida corporation, claim- 
iiant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the 
tentry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and 
tit was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant
ipon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 
p?he sum of $500, or the deposit of $500 cash in lieu thereof, conditioned in part 
phat the product be reconditioned under the supervision of and to the satisfac- 
tion of this department.
W. M. JAKDINK, Secretary of Agriculture.
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