27680. Adulteration of oranges.    XT. S. v. 191 Cases of Oranges.    Default decree
of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. No. 39635. Sample No. 
1128-C.)
This product was found to be in part decomposed and damaged by drying.
On April 23, 1937, the United States attorney for the District of Montana, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 191 cases of oranges at Butte, 
Mont, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about March 9, 1937, by American Fruit Growers from Pomona, Calif., and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was 
labeled in part: (Cases) "Orange Queen Brand U. S. No. 1 American Fruit 
Growers Inc.   Los Angeles, California."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a 
filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance in that a citrus fruit damaged
by drying, had been substituted wholly or in part for edible citrus fruit, which 
it purported to be.
On June 29, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.