27824. Adulteration of  grapefruit.     V.  S. v.  17 Boxes  of Grapefruit.    Default
decree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. No. 40304.    Sample No. 
27147-C.)
This product was immature and had been artificially colored. 
On September 17, 1937, 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 17 boxes of grapefruit 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about 
September 10, 1937, by F. D. A. Carpenter, trading as Villa de Leon Fruit Co., 
from Bayamon, P. R., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Bright Villa de Leon, 
Bayamon, Puerto Rico Grown and Packed by Murphy and Clark."
The libel alleged that the article was immature and artificially colored with 
ethylene gas or by sweating, and that it was adulterated in that it had been 
colored in a manner whereby inferiority was concealed.
On October 2, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HAEET L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.