F. & D. No. 2377.
S. No. S36.	
Issued July 13,1911.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 923, FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
ADULTERATION OF MEAL PRODUCT?"MAISFUTTER."
During the month of January, 1911, the Baltimore Pearl Hominy?
Company, Baltimore, Md., shipped from the State of Maryland into?
the State of New Jersey eight cars containing meal product, packed in?
sacks of about 140 pounds each, which were labeled: "Maisfutter?
(bust cut of man) Axa Gesetzlich Geschutzt." A sample from this?
shipment was procured and examined by the Bureau of Chemistry,?
United States Department of Agriculture, and the product was found?
to consist of a filthy and decomposed vegetable matter. As it ap??
peared from the findings of the analyst and report thereon that the?
product was adulterated within the meaning of the Food and Drugs?
Act of June 30, 1906, and liable to seizure under section 10 of the act,?
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the facts to the United States?
attorney for the District of New Jersey.
In due course a libel was filed in the District Court of the United?
States for said district against the said eight cars of meal product,?
charging the above shipment and alleging that the product so shipped?
was adulterated within the meaning of the act because it consisted of?
a filthy and decomposed matter, and praying seizure, condemnation,?
and forfeiture of the product. Thereupon the Baltimore Pearl?
Hominy Company, aforesaid, entered its appearance and filed a claim?
to the product in question.
On March 16, 1911, the cause came on for hearing and the claimants?
admitting the allegations of the above libel and consenting to the?
entry of a decree of condemnation and forfeiture, the court being?
fully informed in the premises, issued its decree condemning and for??
feiting the product to the use of the United States for the causes?
alleged in said libel; with a proviso, however, that the product should?
be released to the claimants upon the payment of the costs of these?
proceedings and the filing of a satisfactory bond, conditioned, that?
the said product should not be sold until it had been subjected to a?
cooling process and made fit for consumption by animals, and that it?
should not be disposed of for any other than animal food purposes,
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and not at all until it had been examined by an employee of the?
United States Department of Agriculture and pronounced to be fit?
for animals.
This notice is given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs?
Act of June 30, 1906.
JAMES WILSON,
Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 27, 1911.
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