16812. Adulteration of  canned  strawberries.     U.   S. v.  59  Cases  of  Canned
Strawberries.    Default order of destruction entered.     (F. & D. No.
23027.    I. S. No. 01240.    S. No. 1119.)
On August 28, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court for said district a lbel praying seizure and condemnation of 59 cases 
of canned strawberries, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Minneapolis, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Paulus 
Bros. Packng Co., from Mount Angel, Oreg., on or about August 3, 1928, and 
transported from the State of Oregon into the State of Minnesota, and charging 
adulterat'on in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled 
in part: (Cans) "Brookland Strawberries * * * Oregon Growers Co- 
operative Association,    *    *    *    Salem, Oregon."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
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On April 11, 1929, upon the filing of an affidavit by the United States 
attorney that the product was unfit for consumption as food, a decree was 
entered by the court, ordering that it be destroyed by the Un ted States 
marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.