21357. Adulteration of   blueberries.      TJ.   S.   v.   11   Crates   of   Blueberries.
Default    decree    of    condemnation,   forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. no. 30970.    Sample no. 47076-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of blueberries which were found 
to contain maggots.
On August 7, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 11 crates of blue- 
berries at Boston, Mass., consigned August 6, 1933, alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce by Elmer Starr, Sr., from Rock- 
ville, Maine, 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 filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On August 18, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was 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.