23112. Adulteration of blueberries.    U. S. v. 5 Crates, et al., of Blueberries.
Default decrees of forfeiture and destruction. (F. & D. nos. 33356, 
33358, 33359, 33360, 33361. Sample nos. 5398-B, 5398-B, 5399-B, 5400-B, 
14401-B, 14402-B.)
These cases involved shipments of blueberries which were infested with 
maggots.
On August 1, 2, and 3, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of 
Massachusetts, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 34 crates of blueberries 
at Boston, Mass., consigned in various lots on or about July 31, August 1, and 
August 2, 1934, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
by Leach & Lait, from Bangor and Bucksport, Maine, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On August 21, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgments of forfeiture 
were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.