21429. Adulteration of   blueberries.      U.    S.   v.   6   Crates   of   Blueberries.
Default  decree  of forfeiture  and  destruction.      (F.  &  D.  no.   30972. 
Sample no. 47083-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of blueberries which were found 
to contain maggots.
On August 8, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of six crates of blueberries at 
Boston, Mass., consigned August 7, 1933, from Bucksport, Maine, alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce by O. N. Merrill, of Ells- 
worth, 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 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.