17417. Alleged Adulteration of evaporated apples.    U. S. v. 175 Boxes, et al.,
of Evaporated Apples. Tried' to the court. Judgments flndingr 
product not adulterated and dismissing cases. (F. & D. Nos. 24315, 
24316, 24388.    I. S. Nos. 04001, 04002, 04007, 04008.    S. Nos. 2567, 2641.)
On December 5, and December 19, 1929, respectively, the United States 
attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, acting upon reports by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for 
said district libels praying seizure and condemnation of 211 boxes of evaporated 
apples, remaining in the original unbroken packages in part at Atlanta, Ga., 
and in part at West Point, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
J. W. Blocher, from Bentonville, Ark., on or about September 13, 1929, and 
transported from the State of Arkansas into the State of Georgia, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in 
part: " Sulphur Bleach Evaporated Apples, Packed by J. W. Blocher, Benton- 
ville, Arkansas."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that excessive 
water had been mixed and packed with the said article, so as to reduce and 
lower its quality and strength.
On February 8, 1930, the cases came on for trial before the court. After the 
introduction of evidence judgments were entered that the product was not 
adulterated. It was ordered by the court that the said product be delivered 
to Paradise & Rich and W. E. Edwards & Co., of Atlanta, Ga., and the West 
Point Wholesale Grocery Co., West Point, Ga., and that the cases be dismissed.
ABTHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.