20013. Adulteration of blueberries.    U.S. v. 3 Crates, et al., of Blueberries.
Default decrees of forfeiture and destruction.     (F. & D. Nos. 28748. 
28758.    Sample Nos. 9054-A, 9468-A.)
Samples of blueberries taken from the shipments herein described were 
found to contain maggots.
On August 8 and 9, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of j 
Massachusetts, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in ' 
the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels pray- 
ing seizure and condemnation of 2 lots consisting of 6 crates and 3 crates of 
blueberries, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Boston, Mass., 
consigned August 7 and 8, 1932, alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce by William O. Jala, from Rockland, Maine, to Boston, 
Mass., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act 
The article was labeled in part: (Tag) "From Wm. O. Jala, Rockland, Me."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On August 18,1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments 
of forfeiture were entered and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.