24793. Adulteration of tangerines.    TJ. S. v. 37 Boxes of Tangerines.    Default
decree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 35520.    Sample 
no. 29334-B.)
This case involved a shipment of tangerines which were damaged by drying.
On April 24,1935, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Wis- 
consin, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 37 boxes of tangerines at 
Milwaukee, Wis., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about April 17, 1985, by the Eustis Packing Co., from Eustis, Fla., 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: "American Beauty Brand."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that citrus fruit damaged by 
drying had been substituted wholly or in part for edible citrus fruit, which the 
article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that 
a valuable constituent, juice, had been wholly or in part abstracted.
On May 15,1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. B. GEBGQ, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.