16964. Adulteration of   canned   blueberries.     U.   S.   v.   33   Cases   of   Canned
Blueberries. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product 
released under bond.     (F. & D. No. 24218.    I. S. No. 011557.    S. No. 2463.)
On or about November 8, 1929, the United States attorney for the District 
of Massachusetts, 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 22 cases of canned blueberries, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Dorchester (Boston), Mass., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the R. J. Peacock Canning Co., from Machias, Me., on or about 
September 27, 1929, and transported from the State of Maine into the State of 
Massachusetts, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: " Peacanco Brand Blueberries * * * 
Packed by R. J. Peacock Canning Co., Lubec, Maine."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that maggoty 
blueberries had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower 
its quality, and had been substituted in part for blueberries which the article 
purported to be. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that the 
article consisted in part of a filthy vegetable substance.
On December 9, 1929, the R, J. Peacock Canning Co., Machiasport, Me., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned 
in part that it be salvaged and the adulterated portion destroyed.
AETHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.