27401. Adulteration of   raisins.    IT.   S.  v.  76  Cases  of Raisins   (and  15 other
seizure  actions).    Default  decrees  of  condemnation and destruction.
(F. & D. nos. 39351, 39353, 39354, 89355, 39360, 39397, 39400, 39401, 89417, 
39420, 39428, 39435, 39436. 39514, 39518, 39534, 39535, 39541, 39554. Sample 
nos. 2074-C, 2177-C, 17886-C, 178S9-C, 17890-C, 21821-C, 21824-C, 26735-C, 
27354-C, 27366-C, 27369-C, 27371-C, 27373-C, 27376-C 27535-C, 27537-C 
34688-C, 34690-C, 42476-C, 42478-C.)
This product contained hydrocyanic acid in amounts which might have ren- 
dered it injurious to health.
Between the dates of April 8 and April 29, 1937, the United States attorney 
for the Northern District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary 
of Agriculture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation 
of 515 cases of raisins in various lots at Schenectady, Troy, Albany, Syracuse, 
and Binghamton, N. Y., respectively. During the same period libels were filed 
against 91 cases of raisins at Tyler, Tex., 314 cases at Houston, Tex, 51 cases at 
Seguin, Tex., 8% cases at Rockdale, Tex., and 89 cases at Galveston, Tex. The 
libels alleged that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, certain 
shipments on or about October 24 and 28, 1936, and the remaining shipments 
in February 1937, by the Sunland Sales Cooperative Association, in part from 
Stockton, Calif., and in part from Fresno, Calif., and that it was adulterated 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part vari- 
ously: "Sun Maid Raisins Seedless Nectars" [or "Puffed Seeded Muscats", 
"Midget Thompson Seedless", or "Feature Raisin Bread Special"] * * * 
Sun-Maid Raisin Growers of California Fresno California"; "Blue Ribbon Brand 
Seedless Raisins * * * Distributed by Sunland Sales Cooperative Associa- 
tion"; "Amber Beauty Sultana Raisins."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained an added poisonous 
and deleterious ingredient, hydrocyanic acid, which might have rendered it 
injurious to health.
On June 5, 10, 14, 15, 18, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, and July 8, 1937, no claimant 
having appeared, judgments of condemnation were entered and the product 
was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.