S404.  Adulteration   of  oranges.     LT.   S.     *     *     *     v.  2511   Boxes   of  Oranges.?
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product released
on bond.     (F. & D. No. 11880.    I. S. No. 3107-r.    S. No. W-5G5.)
On January 22, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon,?
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?
231 boxes of oranges, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Portland,
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Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Produce Fruit Co., Lind-?
sey, Calif., on December 2G, 1919, and transported from the State of California?
into the State -of Oregon, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act.
Adulteration.of-the article .was alleged in substance in .the,libel for the reason?
that it consisted in whole 03' in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable?
substance.
On February 6, 1920, It. L. Phillippi, claimant, having admitted the allegations?
of the libel and consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture?
was entered^ and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to said?
claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a?
bond in the sum of $462, in conformity with section 10 of the act, and with the?
proviso fchat such oranges as were fit for human consumption might be made?
into marmalade.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.