1325. Adulteration of prunes.    TJ. S. v.  1,300  Cartons  of Prunes   (and 4 other
seizure actions against prunes). Consent decrees of condemnation, with 
provision for release under bond for denaturing. Orders of destruction 
entered for failure to comply with conditions of original decrees.     (F.
D. C. Nos. 1893, 1978, 1992, 2018, 2215, 2216. Sample Nos. 10492-E, 10493-E, 
33085-E, 33086-E, 33099-E, 33190-E, 33103-B, 33104-B, 33105-E.)
Most lots of this product were decomposed as well as insect-infested.
Between April 30 and June 17, 1940, the United States attorney for the 
Southern District of New York filed libels against a total of 1,300 cartons, 750 
cases, 407 cases, and 684 sacks of prunes at New York, N. Y., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce within the period from on or 
about January 22 to on or about April 25, 1940, by Rosenberg Bros. & Co. from 
San Francisco, Calif.; and charging that it was adulterated in that one lot 
consisted of a filthy substance and the remaining lots consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy and decomposed substance. The article was labeled in part: 
"Calif. Prunes" or "Prunes for Manufacturing Purposes Only."
On October 21, 1940, Max Ams, Inc., the American Fig & Date Co., and 
J. Cane & Sons, of New York, N. Y., claimants for their respective lots, having 
admitted the allegations of the libels, judgments of condemnation were entered. 
The decrees provided that the product might be taken down under bond by the 
claimants to be denatured and disposed of as feed for livestock. On February 
21, 1941, the claimants having failed to denature the product within the time 
provided by the decrees, judgments of destruction were entered.