15321. Adulteration of canned blackberries.     U. S. t\ 972 Cases  of Canned
Blackberries. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction.     (P. & D. No. 20688.    1. S. No. 630-X.    S. No. W-1825.)
On December 3, 1925, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
California, 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 972 cases of canned blackberries, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., consigned by the Kelley Packing Co., 
?Chehalis, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce from Chehalis, Wash, into the State of California, on or about September 
25, 1925, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The 
article was labeled in part:  (Can)   "Kelley's Perfek-Pak Blackberries."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance. 
, iOn .May 20, 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. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.