26354. Adulteration of dried olives.     U. S. v. 76 Cases of Dried Olives.    Default
decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 37868. Sample no. 
62196-B.)
This case involved dried olives that were decomposed.
On July 9, 1936, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New- 
York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 76 cases of dried olives at 
New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about March 3, 1936, by the Lucca Olive Oil Co., from Oakland, 
Calif., 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 decomposed vegetable substance.
On July 24, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.