21112. Adulteration of Brazil nuts.    IT. S. v. 38 Bags and 60 Bass of Brazil
Nuts. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. nos. 29557, 29588.    Sample nos. 23936-A, 23939-A.)
These cases involved shipments of Brazil nuts which were in part moldy 
and decomposed.
On December 1 and December 3, 1932, the United States attorney for the 
Eastern District of Missouri, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 
98 bags of Brazil nuts at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about October 13 and October 19, 1932, 
by William A. Higgins Co., New York, N. Y., and charging adulteration in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled: " Holly Jumbo 
[or " Medium "] Manaos Brazil W. A. H."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On" June 24, 1933, William A. Higgins Co., Inc., intervener, having with- 
drawn claims and answers, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.