29421. Adulteration of blueberries.    TJ. S. v. 7 Crates and 14 Crates of BlueŽ
berries.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D.
Nos. 43370, 43434.   Sample Nos. 26531-D, 26667-D.)
This product was infested with maggots.
On August 12 and 16, 1938, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 21 crates 
of blueberries at New York, N. Y.; alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about August 10 and 14, 1938, by M. S. Pollock from 
Tresckow, Pa.; 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, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On September 9, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judgments- of con- 
demnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HABET L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.