15633.?Adulteration of figs.    TJ.  S. v. 500 Bags of Dried Figs.     Product  or?
dered  released  under  bond.     (F.  & D.  No.   22405.    I.   S.  No.   13160-x.?
S. No. 498.)
On January 28, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado,?
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 500 bags of figs, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Denver,?
Colo., shipped by the Duane Trading Co., New York, N. Y., alleging that the?
article had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or about October 1, 1927,?
from New York, N. Y., into the State of Colorado, and charging adulteration?
in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: "FAB?
Sterling Natural Figs, Smyrna, Turkey."
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 March 1, 1928, the Merchants Biscuit Co., Denver, Colo., having appeared?
as claimant for the property, a decree was entered ordering that the product?
be released to the said claimant upon the execution of a bond in the sum of?
$3,500, conditioned that it not be used or disposed of contrary to law. It was?
further ordered by the court that the product be examined under the super??
vision of this department, that any figs found to be adulterated be condemned?
and destroyed, and that the bond be released upon compliance with the terms?
of the decree and payment of costs by the claimant.
W. M. JARDINH, Secretary of Agriculture.