27816. Adulteration of blueberries.    U. S. v. 6 Crates of Blueberries.    Default
decree of forfeiture and destruction.     (F.  & D. No. 40234.    Sample No. 
54786-C.)
This product contained maggots.
On August 25, 1937, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information praying seizure and condemnation of six crates of blue- 
berries at Boston, Mass., consigned August 24, 1937, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by Myron C. Carter from North Sedgwick, Maine, and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in part of a 
filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On October 4,1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of forfeiture was 
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.