15744, Adulteration of prunes.    V. S. v. 144 Boxes of Prunes.    Consent de 
cree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 22723. 
I. S. Nos. 24267-x. 24268-x.    S. No. 760.)
On April 18, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of .New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 144 boxes of prunes, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the Jacksonville Florida Union Terminal Warehouse Co., from Jacksonville, 
Fla., March 24, 1928, and transported from the State of Florida into the 
State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On May 22, 1928, the claimant having admitted the allegations of the libel 
?and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and 
forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretari; of Agriculture.