25744. Adulteration   and misbranding of  dates.     IT.  S. v. 448 Cases  of Dates.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D.
no. 36867.    Sample no. 41310-B.)
This article was worm-infested and its packages were without a declaration 
of the quantity of the contents.
On December 23, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Minne- 
sota, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of a quantity of dates at St. 
Paul, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, 
on or about December 4, 1935, by the National Importing Co., from New York, 
N. Y., to St. Paul, Minn., and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: (Case) "Yam 
al Repack Sairs Finest Selected Dates Produce of Rasrah Iraq Fresh Sound 
and Clean Net Weight Lbs."
Adulteration of the article was charged under the allegation that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy vegetable substance.
Misbranding of the article was charged under the allegation that it was in 
package form and that its packages failed to bear a plain and conspicuous 
statement of the quantity of their contents.
On April 4, 1936, no claimant having appeared, a default decree of condemna- 
tion, forfeiture, and destruction was entered.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.