24995. Adulteration of blueberries.     U. S. v. 9 Crates of Blueberries.     Default
decree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 36370.    Sample 
no. 36643-B.)
This case involved a shipment of blueberries which contained maggots.
On August 12, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of nine crates of blueberries 
at Boston, Mass., consigned on or about August 12,1935, alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce from Laconia, N. H., by H. Leslie 
Curtis, 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, and putrid vegetable substance.
On September 23, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.