4407. Adulteration of oats. II. S. * * * v. 250 Bags of Oats. Consent?
decree of condemnation and foi'feiture. Product ordered re??
leased on bond.    (F. & D. No. 6615.    I. S. No. 11692-k.    S. No. C-249.)
On June 12, 1915, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 250 bags of oats, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Selma, Ala., alleging that the article had been shipped on May 2,?
1915, and transported from the State of Indiana into the State of Alabama,?
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act: The article?
was labeled: " Purified Oats, 159J- Lbs. net when packed."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated by the addition?
of water.
On September 18, 1915, Cothran & Co., Selma, Ala., having appeared as claim??
ants of the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and?
it. was ordered by the court that the product should be delivered to said claim??
ants npon payment of the costs of the proceeding and the execution of bond in?
the sum of $100 in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned, among?
other things,, that the oats should be dried by the claimants so as to eliminate?
the added moisture and reduce the same to approximately 10 to 11 per cent.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
N. J, 4451-4500.
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