16990. Adulteration of Brazil nuts.    U. S. v. 113 Bags of Brazil Nuts.    Con 
sent   decree  of   condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released 
under bond.    (F. & D. No. 24384.    I. S. No. 028547.    S. No. 2595.)
On December 18,-1929, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, 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 113 bags of Brazil nuts, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., consigned by Higson Jones & Co., Manaos, 
Brazil, alleging that the article had been shipped from a foreign country, to 
wit, Brazil, to New York, N. Y., on or about July 19, 1929, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance, to 
wit, rancid, decomposed, moldy, wormy, and empty nuts.
On January 6, 1930, Wm. A. Higgins & Co. (Inc.), New York, N. Y., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the 
entry of a decree, 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 $1,500, con- 
ditioned in part that it be sorted to separate the good nuts from.' the bad, and 
that the bad portion be denatured or destroyed.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture,.