21952. Adulteration of  pitted   dates.     U.   S.  v.   175   Cases   of  Pitted  Dates.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond for segregation and destruction of unfit por- 
tion.    (F. & D. no. 31825.    Sample no. 50982-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of pitted dates that were found to 
be infested with insects and excreta.
On January 12, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 175 cases of pitted dates at Denver, 
Colo., consigned by the Balfour-Guthrie Co., New York, N.Y., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about November 7, 1932. 
from New York, N.Y., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.   The article was labeled in part: " Sinbad Pitted."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On January 12, 1934, Melvin G. Strauss, trading as the Aimel Fig. Date 
Nut Co., Denver, Colo., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by 
the court that the product be released to the claimant upon payment of costs 
and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,300, conditioned in part that the 
unfit dates be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.