16967. Adulteration of  canned blueberries.     U.   S.  v.  86  Cases   of  Canned
Blueberries. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond to be salvaged. (F. & D. No. 24276. 
I. S. No. 024050.    S. No. 2515.)
On November 22, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey, 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 86 cases of canned blueberries at Newark, N. J., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Stinson & Crabtree Co., Hancock, Me., 
on or about September 25, 1929, and transported from the State of Maine into 
the State of New Jersey, and charging adulteration in violation of the food 
and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Calevan Brand Fancy 
Maine Blueberries Packed by Stinson & Crabtree Co., Hancock, Maine."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On December 17, 1929, the Stinson & Crabtree Co., Hancock, Me., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree condemning and forfeiting ' the product, judgment was entered 
ordering that it be delivered to the claimant at Hancock, Me., to be recondi- 
tioned, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500. 
It was further ordered by the court that the portion of the product that could 
not be satisfactorily reconditioned, or the entire lot, in the event of failure 
to satisfactorily recondition it, be condemned and destroyed.
ABTHXJB M.  HYDE,  Secretary of Agriculture.