17249. Adulteration of grapefruit.    U. S. v. 195 Boxes of Grapefruit.    De 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.    (F. & D. No. 24550.    I. S. No. 014183.    S. No. 2872.)
On February 19, 1930, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Tennessee, 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 195 boxes of grapefruit at Memphis, Tenn., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Falley (Valley) Fruit Co., Harlingen, Tex., 
on or about February 4, 1930, and transported from the State of Texas into the 
State of Tennessee, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act. The article was labeled in part: "Texas Pride Valley Fruit Exchange, 
Harlingen, Texas Grapefruit."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted wholly or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance, since it had 
been damaged by fruit.
On February 21, 1930, the Valley Fruit Exchange, Harlingen Tex., 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 $1,200, conditioned 
in part that it be salvaged under the supervision of this department.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.