17677. Adulteration

of   blueberries.    V.   S.   v.   12   Crates,   et   al.,   of  Blue 
berries. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction. (F. & D. Nos. 25262, 25263. I. S. Nos. 3001, 5573. S. Nos. 
3327, 3329.)
Samples of blueberries from the herein described interstate shipments having 
?been found to contain maggots, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
On August 1 and August 4, 1930, respectively, the said United States attorney 
-filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels 
praying seizure and condemnation of 28 crates of blueberries, remaining in the 
?original unbroken packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been 
-shipped by Henry Kontio, from Rockland, Me., in part on August 1, 1930, and in 
part on August 2, 1930, and had been transported from the State of Maine into 
the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration in violation of the food 
rand drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On August 25, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments 
?of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.