19756. Adulteration of peKans.    U. S. v. 44 Bags of PeKans.    Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond.
(F. & D. No. 27591.    I. S. No. 45465.    S. No. 5625.)
Samples of pecans taken from the shipment involved in this action were 
found to be decomposed, moldy, wormy, and shriveled.
On or about December 29, 1931, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, 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 44 bags of pecans at Chicago, Ill., alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about Feb- 
ruary 24, 1931, by W. A. Robinson from St. Joseph, La., to Chicago, Ill., and 
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 April 27, 1932, James P. Allen, claimant, having admitted the facts set 
forth in the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment, of 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be released to the said claimant for sorting under the super- 
vision of this department, in order to separate the good nuts from the bad nuts, 
upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, con- 
ditioned in part that it should not be sold or disposed of contrary to the 
provisions of the food and drugs act or the laws of any State, Territory, Dis- 
trict, or insular possession.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.