21410. Adulteration of   blueberries.     U.   S.   v.   11   Crates   and   24   Crates
of Blueberries.    Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction.     (F. & D. nos. 31136, 31140.    Sample nos. 42511-A, 42517-A.)
On August 31 and September 1, 1933, the United States attorney for the 
Northern District of Ohio, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 35 crates 
of blueberries at Cleveland, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about August 29 and August 30, 1933, by Kostick 
Bros., acting for the Spring Mountain Blueberry Association of Beaver Meadow, 
Pa., from Hazleton, Pa., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed vegetable 
substance.
On October 13,1933, 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.