TLS826. Adulteration of .cherries-In brine*   jUi  S. v. ;t49; Barrelsy/,=et-atl.i?*
Cherries in  Brine.,'. Consent  decrees   ordering?  product  released
?r-   - under bond.    '<Fr& fi. tics. 26858, 26860. " I. S.NoS. ^2917, 22919.    RNos.
M   14999,5027.)    '??  ; ^:.; ?-: '?  ?; ???-?"   :   '   --'<   1'  ";:-; -  ? ^--f-5  - l ?' ?' ^-  
- Samples of Cherries to brine from the :shipments herein'described Slaving 
fceen found *to be rotter or moldy,;the Secretary of Agrreulttire1 reported -the 
matter to the United States attorney for the Easterri District df NeW York:i?:
Oii August 21, 193l;^the United States attorney-filed in the1 J District Coiirt 
of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying seizure and^con- 
demnation of 422 barrels of cherries in brine, remaining lir the drfgiiial pack- 
ages at Brooklyn, N.Y., alleging-that the - article had been shipped by the 
W. G. Allen Fruit Co., Dundee, Oreg., in.part on or about July.13, 1931, and 
in 'part; on or about July 25j: 1931, and'had been' "transported 'from the State of 
Oregon into the State of New- York, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act.   ..-,-
it was alleged in the libels that the article was. adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a: filthy, decomposed, or putrid; vegetable 
substance.  , '.  
On\ September
' 23, 1931, the Causse : Manufacturing & Importing Co.;; New 
York, N.'.Y.," claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libels and having 
consented to the entry of decrees in accordance with the prayers, thereof, 
judgments wefe; entered ordering that the product be delivered to? the; said 
claimant upon payment of costs and,the execution of bonds totaling.$8,000, 
conditioned in part that it be sorted by,hand so as to separate the good-cherries 
and the sound cracked cherries that had no mold, from those which were unfit 
and decomposed, and that the said unfit and decomposed portion be destroyed 
by the United States marshal, v 
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ABTHTTR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.