19605. Adulteration of  walnuts.    U.   S.  v.   10  Boxes   of  Walnuts.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
27392.    I. S. No. 45474.    S. No. 5589.)
The walnuts in the shipment involved in this action having been found to 
contain an excessive amount of inedible nuts, the Secretary of Agriculture 
reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois.
On December 18, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 10 boxes of walnuts at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about September 5, 1931, by the 
Boston Terminal Refrigerating Co., from Boston, Mass., to Chicago, Ill.,
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charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed, filthy, and putrid vegetable substance.
On February 11, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.