25607. Adulteration of   canned   orange   juice.     U.   S.   -v.   84   Cases,   et   al~*   of
Orange Juice. Tried in the court. Judgments for the Government. 
Decrees of condemnation with provision for release under bond for 
salvaging. Amended decrees of destruction. (F & D nos. 36161, 
36345.    Sample nos. 8181-B, 8182-B, 8183-B, 35470-B, 35471-B.)
These actions involved canned orange juice that was in part decomposed.
On August 19 and September 17, 1935, the United States attorney for the 
Eastern District of Kentucky, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 
195% cases of canned orange juice at Lexington, Ky., consigned from East San 
Pedro, Calif., on or about July 7,1935, alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce from the State of California into the State of Kentucky, 
and changing adulteration in violation of the food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part; "Absopure California Orange Juice Absopure Fruit 
Products, IHC, Anaheim, California."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part 
of a decomposed vegetable substance.
The Absopure Fruit Products, Inc., Anaheim, Calif., appeared as claimant and 
waved a trial by jury. On November 9, 1935, a motion to dismiss the libels 
having been overruled and the cases having been submitted to the court on the 
pleadings, the statements of attorneys and evidence introduced on behalf of the 
Government and claimant, judgments of condemnation were entered providing 
that the product might be released to the claimant under bond, conditioned that 
the bad cans be removed therefrom. On February 27, 1£36, the claimant having 
failed to execute a bond to secure release of the goods, amended decrees were 
entered ordering that the product be destroyed and that the claimant pay costs 
in both cases, amounting to $87.50.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,