27815. Adulteration of blueberries.    IT. S. v. 5 Crates (and 4 other seizures) of
Blueberries.   Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D.
Nos.   40232,   40233,   40241,   40242,   40283.     Sample   Nos.   38521-C,   3S568-C, 
38576-C, 38577-C, 88582-C, 38584-C.)
Samples of this product were found to be infested with maggots.
On August 20, 23, and 27, 1937, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 26 crates of 
blueberries at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce in various shipments from August 17 to August 24, 1937, by 
W. B. Blaisdell & Co., and M. P. Noyes from Franklin, Maine; Alex Wallenius 
from Union, Maine; and Herbert Farren from Cherryfield, Maine, 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 filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On September 3 and 13, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.