29088. Adulteration of fresh spinach.    U. S. v. S20 Baskets of Fresh Spinach.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 42125. 
Sample No. 17076-D.)
This product was infested with aphids.
On April 2, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 320 baskets of fresh spinach at 
Baltimore, Md.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about March 31, 1938, from Suffolk, Va., by W. S. Cross; 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 vegetable substance.
On May 6. 1938. no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.