15959. Adulteration  of ftg paste.     IT.  S. v. 750 Boxes of Fig Paste.     Decree 
' of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 22108.    I. S. No. 14289-x.    S. No. 162.)
On October 26, 1927, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Iowa, 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 750 boxes of fig paste, remaining in the oi'iginal unbroken 
packages at Davenport, Iowa, alleging that the article had been shipped by 
Garcia & Maggini Co., Fresno, Calif., on or about September 15, 1927, and 
transported from the State of California into the State of Iowa, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled 
in part: " Paradise Brand Calif. Fig Paste packed by Garcia & Maggini Co."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On January 4, 1928, Garcia & Maggini Co., Fresno, Calif., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation 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 $3,000, conditioned in part that it should not be used or dis- 
posed of contrary to the provisions of the Federal food and drugs act, nor as 
food for human beings.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.