21378. Adulteration of  blueberries.     TJ.   S.   v.   23   Crates   and   4   Crates   of
Blueberries. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction.     (F. & D. nos. 31110, 31116.    Sample nos. 49876-A, 46937-A.)
These cases involved shipments of blueberries which were found to contain 
maggots.
On July 29, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 23 crates of blue- 
berries at Boston, Mass. On August 28 1933, a libel was filed in the Western 
District of New York against 4 crates of blueberries at. Buffalo, N.Y. The 
two lots were consigned July 27 and August 26, 1933, respectively. It was 
alleged in the libels that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce by J. Shupack, from Hazleton, Pa., and that it was adulterated in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The libels charged that the article was adulterated in that it consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy,  decomposed,  and putrid vegetable substance.
On August 18 and September 20, 1933, no claimant having appeared for 
the property, 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.