17426. Adulteration of unpeeled pie peaches.    U. S. v. 275 Cases of Canned
TJnpeeled Pie Peaches. Consent decrees of condemnation and for- 
feiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. Nos. 23910, 23911. 
23912.    I. S. No. 03978.    S. No. 2131.)
Samples of the canned peaches from the shipment herein described having 
been, found to contain wormy fruit and worms, the Secretary of Agriculture 
reported the facts to the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Florida.
On or about August 7, 1929, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district libels praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of 715 cases of canned unpeeled pie peaches, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Jacksonville, Fla., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the A. J. Evans Marketing Agency, Fort Valley, Ga., on or about 
July 2, 1929, and transported from the State of Georgia into the State of 
Florida, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The 
article was labeled in part: (Can) "Setter Brand Unpeeled Pie Peaches 
*    *    *   Packed by Evans Canning Co., Fort Valley, Ga."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy and putrid vegetable substance.
On February 3, 1930, the Evans Canning Co., Fort Valley, Ga., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libels and having consented to the entry 
of decrees, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were 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 $2,000, conditioned 
in part that it be sold to an orchardist to be used for moth bait.
ARTHTIB M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture.