NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1085.
(Glyen pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF TOMATO CATSUP.
In October, 1910, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Missouri, acting upon the report of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for 
said district two libels praying condemnation and forfeiture of 100 
cases and 15 barrels, respectively, of tomato catsup, in the posses- 
sion of Gildehaus-Wulfing & Co., St. Louis, Mo. The product was 
labeled, " Oyster Bay Brand Tomato Ketchup, Free from any arti- 
ficial coloring, preset led with 1/10 of 1% benzoate of soda, packed 
for Gildehaus-Wulfing & Co., St. Louis, Mo."
Examination of samples of this product, made by the Bureau of 
Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture, showed 
it to contain 100 million bacteria per cc, 71 yeasts and spores per 
one-sixtieth cmm., with mold filaments in 75 per cent of the micro- 
scopic fields examined. The libels alleged that the tomato catsup, 
after transportation from the State of Ohio into the State of Mis- 
souri, remained in the original unbroken packages, and was adulter- 
ated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, be- 
cause it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegeta- 
ble substance.
On April 3, 1911, the cause came on to be heard and the court 
issued its decree, finding 78 cases and 6 barrels of the product, the 
same being all that was found at the time of seizure, to be adulterated, 
as charged in the above libels and ordering the destruction of said 
product.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August &£, 1911.
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