NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1075.
(Given pursuant to section ? of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF TOMATO CATSUP.
On December 20, 1910, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana, acting upon the report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court for said district a libel pray- 
ing condemnation and forfeiture of 25 barrels of tomato catsup in 
the possession of the Louisiana Molasses Co. (Inc.), New Orleans, La.
Examination of samples of this product by the Bureau of Chem- 
istry, United States Department of Agriculture, showed it to con- 
tain yeasts and spores 100 per one-sixtieth cmm., bacteria 185,000,000 
per-cc, with mold filaments in TO per cent of the microscopic fields. 
The libel alleged that the catsup, after shipment by the Philadelphia 
Pickling Co., of Philadelphia, from the State of Pennsylvania into 
the State of Louisiana, remained in the original unbroken packages 
and was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act of June 
,30, 1906, and was, therefore, liable to seizure for confiscation. 
Adulteration was alleged because the product consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable 
substance.
On February 1, 1911, no person appearing as claimant of said 
catsup, it was ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the court that the 
product be condemned and forfeited to the use of the United States 
for the cause set forth in the libel, and that the product be destroyed 
by the marshal for said district.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 19,1911.
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