? 18827. Adulteration of cherries In brine.    U. S. v. 222 Barrels of Cherries 
in Brine.     Consent decree ordering product released under bond.
(F. & I>. No. 26861.    I. S. No. 22918.    S. No. 5028.)
Samples of cherries in brine from the shipment herein described having 
been found to be rotten and moldy, the'Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the, Eastern District of, New, York. 
?'X)ri August 28, 1931, the United States attorney .filed inthe District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 222 barrels of cherries in brine, remaining in the original packages 
at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Hunt Bros. 
Packing Co., Salem, Oreg., on or about July 22, 1931, and had been transported 
from the State of Oregon 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 con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On September 23,1931, the Causse Manufacturing & Importing Co.. New York. 
N. YJ, claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having con- 
sented to the entry of a decree in accordance with the prayer thereof, judgment 
was entered ordering that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $5,000, conditioned 
in part that it be sorted by hand so as to separate the good cherries and the 
sound cracked cherries that had no mold, from the unfit and decomposed por- 
tion, and that the said unfit and decomposed portion be destroyed by the United 
States marshal.
ARTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.