668. Adulteration of shelled peanuts.    V.  S. v.   170 Bags of Shelled Peanuts.
Consent   decree   of   condemnation.      Product   released   under   bond   for 
segregation of the Food nuts and destruction of the unfit ones.    (F. D. C.
No. 1665.    Sample No. 10302-B.)
"   This product was in interstate commerce when examined and was found to 
be dirty, rancid, and decomposed at that time.
On March 19,1940, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New 
York filed a libel against 170 bags, each containing 120 pounds, of shelled Spanish 
peanuts at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about February 21,1940, by the Farmers Produce Co. from 
s?Thomasville, Ga.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy substance.
On April 22, 1940, the National Almond Products Co., Inc., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered and 
the product was ordered released under bond for segregation and destruction of 
the bad nuts.