28838. Adulteration of oranges.   U. S. v. 172 Bushels of Oranges.   Default decree
of   condemnation   and   destruction.     (F.   &  D.   No.   41913.     Sample  No. 
10028-D.)
This product was decomposed and had been damaged by drying.
On or about February 24, 1938, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 172 bushels of 
oranges at Atlanta, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about February 22, 1938, from Leesburg, Fla., by H. E. Jones, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that citrus fruit damaged by dry- 
ing had been substituted in whole or in part for edible citrus fruit; in that a 
valuable constituent, juice, had been in whole or in part abstracted; and in that 
the article consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On March 19, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.