8301. Action to enjoin and restrain the interstate shipment of adnlterated and 
misbranded grapefruit juice. U. S. v. Edgar C. Christensen (Christensen 
Products Co.).    Consent decree granting injunction.    (Inc. No. 93.)
COMPLAINT FILED: May 11, 1945, Southern District of Texas, against Edgar C. 
Christensen, trading as the Christensen Products Co., at Weslaco, Tex.
NATURE OF CHARGE : From on or about February 25, 1938, to the time the com- 
plaint was filed, the defendant had been preparing, canning, and shipping in 
interstate commerce quantities of canned grapefruit juice that was adulterated 
and misbranded in the following manner: Section 402 (a) (3), the product 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence 
of insect fragments, maggots, whole adult scavenger flies and scavenger fly 
larvae, fly eggs, fly fragments, scaly insects, insect eggs, mold, and rodent 
hairs; Section 402 (a) (4), it had been prepared, packed, and held under in- 
sanitary conditions whereby it might have become contaminated with filth; and, 
Section 403 (a), a portion of the product was labeled "U. S. Grade A Fancy," 
which was false and misleading since it was contaminated with filth.
*See also No. 8457. 
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defendant from commission of the acts complained of, and that, after due 
proceedings, the preliminary injunction be made permanent.
DISPOSITION : August 25, 1945. The defendant having filed an answer denying 
the substantive allegations of the complaint, but having consented to the entry 
of a decree without admission of any of the issues in the case, judgment was 
entered enjoining the defendant from shipping in interstate commerce any 
adulterated grapefruit juice, conditioned that at the end of 1 year from the 
date of the entry of the decree, upon a favorable report from the Department 
of Justice with respect to the plant conditions, the court may terminate the 
injunction and dismiss the complaint.