29090. Adulteration of shelled peanuts.    U. S. -v. 50 Bags of Shelled Peanuts.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 42139. 
Sample No. 9S89-D.)
This product contained an excessive proportion of dirty kernels.
On April 7, 1938, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 50 bags of shelled
peanuts at Philadelphia, Pa.; alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about February 22, 1938, by the Bain Peanut Co., 
of Albany, Ga., from Savannah, Ga.; 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 16, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.