19560. Adulteration of canned blueberries.    U.  S.  v.  1,756  Cases  of BlueŽ
berries.    Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.    (F. & D. No. 25636.    I. S. Nos. 9634, 15513.    S. No. 3922.)
This action involved an interstate shipment of canned blueberries, samples 
of which were found to contain maggots and worms.
On January 7, 1931, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 1,756 cases of the said canned blueberries, remain- 
ing in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce by the Stinson & Crabtree Co., 
from Hancock, Me., to New York, N. Y., on or about August 16, 1930. and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. A portion of the 
article was labeled in part: " Calevan Brand Fancy Maine Blueberries. 
Packed by Stinson & Crabtree Co., Hancock, Me."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On April 25, 1932, the Stinson & Crabtree Co., Hancock, Me., having thereto- 
fore appeared as claimant, and no pleading motion or demurrer having been 
filed by the said claimant, default was noted and the court entered judgment 
ordering that the product be condemned, forfeited, and destroyed.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.