15940. Adulteration  of  figs.     TJ.   S.   v.   10  Cases  of  Fig's.     Default   order   of
destruction entered.    (F. & D. No. 223 90.    I. S. No. 19198-x.    S. No. 251.)
On November. 19, 1927, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Alabama, 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 10 cases of figs at Birmingham, Ala., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Sunland Sales Cooperative Assoc, Fresno, Calif., Octo- 
ber 12, 1927, and transported from the State of California into the State of 
Alabama, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The 
article was labeled in part: " Blue Ribbon Brand Choice Mission Figs, produced 
and packed by California Peach & Fig Growers, Fresno, California."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable sub- 
stance, and in that there was present in the said article a large portion of 
worm-eaten and wormy figs.
On March 26, 1928, no claimant having appeared for the property, and it 
appearing to the court that the product was unfit for food, judgment was entered 
ordering that it be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.