21416. Adulteration of   blueberries.     IT.   S.   v.   32   Crates   of   Blueberries.
Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. no. 30977.    Sample no. 47092-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of blueberries which were found 
to contain maggots.
On August 11, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Mas- 
sachusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 32 crates of 
blueberries at Boston, Mass., consigned August 10, 1933, alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce by C. Gomes, from Gray, 
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 23, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment 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.