16996. Adulteration of Brazil nuts. TJ. S. v. 40 Bags of Brazil Nuts. Con- 
sent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond.    (P. & D. No. 24391.'   I. S. No. 028550.    S. No.' 2615.)
On December 20, 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 40 bags of Brazil nuts, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped from 
Italy, on or about June 21, 1929, and transported from a foreign country into 
the State of New York, 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 con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance, 
to wit, moldy, wormy, and rancid or decomposed 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 $350, conditioned 
in part that it be sorted to separate the good from the bad nuts, and the latter 
destroyed or denatured.
AETHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.