15626.?Adulteration  of  figs.     V.  S.  v. 592   Sacks  of Figs.     Consent   decree
of   condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 21886.    I. S. No. 14983-x.    S. No. E-6111.)
On May 2, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New?
York, 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 592 sacks of figs, remaining unsold in the original packages at?
Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by Garcia & Mag-?
gini Co., from San Francisco, Calif., on or about March 28, 1927, and had been?
transported from the State of California into the State of New York, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it consisted?
in whole or in part of a moldy, wormy, dirty, sour, and bird-pecked vegetable?
substance, and was filthy, decomposed, or putrid.
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On October 10, 1927, W. A. Higgins & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., claimant,?
having admitted the allegations of the libel 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?
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum?
of $2,000, conditioned in part that it be labeled, " Not for Human Consump??
tion," and should not be used for human consumption or for purposes other?
than distillation of alcohol, manufacture of tobacco, and hog feed.
W. M. JAKDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.