16166. Adulteration of string- figs,     U.  S.  v. 50 Cases of  String-  Figrs.     De 
fault  decree  of  destruction  entered.     (F.  & D.  No.  23294.    I.   S.  No. 
0687.     S. No. 1421.)
On December 31, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern 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 50 cases of string figs, remaining in the original packages 
at Los Angeles, Calif., consigned by the V. C. Arguimbau Co., New York, N. Y., 
alleging that the article had been shipped from New York, N. Y., on or about 
November 13, 1928, and transported from-the State of New York into the State 
of California, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Case) Extra String Figs, Grown in Greece 50 
Lbs. net, crop 1928; " (paper insert in cases) " Acropolis Brand Produce of 
Greece Selected Figs Barki Freres."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part or in whole of a filthy and putrid vegetable substance.
On February 21, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment was entered finding the product adulterated and ordering that it be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.