15529. Adulteration of tangerines.     V.  S. v.  3G Half-Boxes  of Tangerines.
Default decree of destruction entered.     (F. & D. No. 21896.    I. S. No. 
13315-x.     S. No. E-5866.)
On or about April 7, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Virginia, 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 36 half-boxes of tangerines, at Richmond, Va., consigned by 
the Sunny South Packing Co., Arcadia, Fla., alleging that the article had been 
shipped from Arcadia, Fla., April 2, 1927, and transported from the State of 
Florida into the. State of Virginia, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
food and drugs act.
Examination of the article by this department showed that it consisted in 
whole or in part of fruit-damaged fruit.
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.
On May 16, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.