4680. Adulteration of Brazil nuts.    XJ. S. v. 5% Cases of Brazil' Nuts.   Default
.decree of condemnation.    Product ordered sold for technical uses;    (F. D.
C. No. 8422.    Sample No. 9516-F.) 
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This product was infested with live and dead irisects.
On September 25, 1942, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Louisiana filed a libel against 5% cases each containing % 33-pound cans, 
of Brazil nuts; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about July 3,1942, by the American Pistachio Corporation, New York, 
N. Y.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole, or.in 
part of a filthy substance. The article was labeled in part: (Can lid) "Usiria 
Brazil Ltd. Shelled Brazil Nuts * * * Exported by Usina Brazil Ltd. Para 
(Brazil),"
On March; 5, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered sold to rendering plants to be disposed 
of for technical war uses.