21486. Adulteration of   blueberries.    IT.   S.   v.   24   Crates   of   Blueberries.
Default    decree    of   condemnation,   forfeiture,    and   destruction.
(F. & D. no. 31078.    Sample no. 57397-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of blueberries which were found to 
contain maggots.
On August 25, 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 24 crates of blue- 
berries at Rochester, N.Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about August 23, 1933, by Andro Evancho, from Auden- 
ried, Pa., 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 whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable sub- 
stance.
On September 20, 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.