21411. Adulteration of   blueberries.    U.   S.   v.   23   Baskets   and   4   Crates   of
Blueberries.     Default   decrees   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and 
destruction.     (F. & D. nos. 30863, 31137.    Sample nos. 42512-A, 57393-A.)
These cases involved interstate shipments of blueberries which were found 
to contain maggots.
On August 7, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 23 baskets of blue-
berries at Buffalo, N.Y. On August 31, 1933, a libel was filed in the Northern 
District of Ohio against four crates of blueberries at Cleveland, Ohio. It was 
alleged in the libels that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about July 29 and August 29, 1933, by Peter M. Fludovich, from Centralia, 
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 October 13 and October 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.