15674.?Adulteration   of  dried  fig's.     17.   S.   v.  40  Cases   of  Dried  Figs,  et   al.
Default decree of condemnation, foi-feitui'e, and destruction.      (P.
& D.   No.   22372.'    I.   S.  Nos.   17690-x,   17691-x.    S.  No.  440.)
On January 13, 1928, the United States attorney for the Northern 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 45 cases of dried figs, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped in?
interstate commerce from New York, N. Y., into the State of California, on or?
about October 10, 1927, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and?
drugs act. The product was- labeled in part: " P J S San Francisco Extra?
String Figs Grown in Greece P. J Spiropoulos Kalamata Crop 1927" and?
"Selected Cross Figs Crop 1927 Grown in Greece P. J. Spiropoulos Calamata."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted?
wholly or in part of a filthy,
' decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On April 9, 1928, 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.