15636. Adulteration of Brazil nuts. TJ. S. v. 25 Bags of Brazil Nuts. De??
cree of condemnation and fox-feiture entered. Product released?
under bond.     (P. & D. No. 22129.    I.  S. No. 20354-x.     S. No.  179.)
On November 1, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Mary??
land, 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 con??
demnation of 25 bags of Brazil nuts, remaining in the original unbroken pack??
ages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped by Wm.?
A. Higgins & Co., from New York, N. Y., on or about August 20, 1927, and had?
been transported from the State of New York into the State of Maryland, 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 con??
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On November 19, 1927, the Palmer Harvey Co., Baltimore, Md., having ap??
peared as claimant for the property, 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 execu??
tion of a bond in the sum of $1,500, conditioned in part that it not be disposed?
of until the nuts had been separated, picked, and reconditioned.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.
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