23113. Adulteration of  blueberries.    U.   S.  v.   13   Crates   and  22   Crates   of
Blueberries.    Default decree of forfeiture and destruction.     (F. &
D. nos. 33357, 33362.    Sample nos. 14413-B, 14416-B.)
These cases involved shipments of blueberries which were infested with 
maggots.
On August 13 and 14, 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 35 crates of blueberries 
at Boston, Mass., consigned August 12 and 14, 1934, alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce by John Greenrose of West Rockport, 
Maine, from Camden, 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 September 11, 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.