30289. Adulteration of canned cherries.    U. S. v. 148 Cases of Canned Cherries.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D.  No. 44528. 
Sample Nos. 48442-D, 48445-D.)
Samples of this product were found to contain maggots.
On December 14, 1938, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 148 cases of 
canned cherries at San Francisco, Calif.; alleging that the article had been
shipped in interstate commerce on or about March 25, 1938, by the Olympia 
Canning Co. from Olympia, Wash.; and charging adulteration in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Mountain Home 
Brand Water Pack Red Sour Pitted Cherries Haas Brothers San Francisco 
*    *    *   Cal., Distributors."
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted wholly or in part of a 
filthy vegetable substance.
On March 8, 1939, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.