20039. Adulteration of blaeberries.    U.S. v. 5 Crates of Blaeberries.    De¬
fault   decree   of   forfeiture   and   destruction.      (F.   &  D.   No.   28759. 
Sample No. 9470-A.)
Samples of blueberries taken from the shipment herein described were found 
to contain maggots.
On August 10, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 5 crates of blueberries, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., consigned on or about August 9, 1932, alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce by C. C. Ladd, from South 
Brooksville, Maine, to Boston, Mass., and charging adulteration in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: (Tag) " From C. C. 
Ladd, So. Brooksville, Me."
It was alleged in the libel 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, judgment 
of forfeiture was entered and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.