29184. Adulteration of dried pears.    U. S. v. 74 Cases of Dried Pears.    Default
decree ordering the product destroyed. (F. & D. No. 42197. Sample 
No. 3199-D.)
This product was infested with insects.
On April 18, 1938, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 74 cases of dried pears at 
Savannah, Ga.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about March 29,1938, from San Francisco, Calif., by Rosenberg Bros. & Co.; 
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. 
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On June 22, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgment by default was ' 
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.