5221. Adulteration of canned cut okra.    U. S. v. 295 Cases of Canned Cut Okra. 
Default  decree  of  condemnation and  destruction.     (F.   D.   C.   No.   9933. 
Sample No. 30985-F.)
Examination showed this product to be sour and decomposed.
On May 14,1943, the United States attorney for the Western District of Wash- 
ington filed a libel against 295 cases, each containing 24 cans, of cut okra at 
Seattle,. Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about February 28,1943, by Encinal Terminal, from Alameda, Calif., 
and that it was invoiced by the A. M. Beebe Company, Inc., of San Francisco, 
Calif.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a decomposed substance.
Oh September 16, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.