29499. Adulteration of canned cherries. U. S. v. 25 Cases of Canned Cherries. Default decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. No. 43222. Sample No. 15062-D.) This product having been shipped in interstate commerce and remaining unsold and in the original packages, was at the time of the examination found to be moldy and decomposed. On August 22, 1938, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 25 cases of canned cherries at New York, N. Y.; alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- state commerce on or about July 23, 1938, by the Western Oregon Packing Corporation from Corvallis, Oreg.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Mountalnview Brand Royal Anne Cherries." Adultgtation was-stSggfed in that the article consisted in whole or in part of a filthy,decomposed, orpfffirid vegetable substance. On "September -2&, ^3988; no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- tion was entered-and the'product was ordered destroyed. M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.