NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1107.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF TOMATO PULP.
In June, 1910, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District 
of Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed a libel for seizure and condemnation in the District Court of 
the United States against 192 cases of tomato pulp in the possession of 
W. A. Gordon & Co., New Orleans, La., consigned to that company 
by the Lord-Mott Co., a corporation, Baltimore, Md., and charging 
Adulteration of the product in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The product was labeled: " Old Reliable Brand Tomato Pulp. 
(Picture of red ripe tomato.) Old Reliable Brand. Packed by 
Lord-Mott Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md. U. S. A. Guaranteed by orde- 
r Co. to comply with pure food law."
Examination of this product made by the Bureau of Chemistry of 
this Department showed it to contain yeasts and spores 375 per one- 
sixtieth cmm., bacteria estimated at 200,000,000 per cc, molds in 
nearly every microscopic field examined, and a considerable amount 
of sand. Adulteration was charged because the product consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed vegetable substance, and 
contained, besides, a considerable amount of sand which had been 
substituted in part for the tomato pulp.
On January 16, 1911, the cause came on for hearing and no claim- 
ant to the product having appeared and no answer having been 
filed, the court ordered judgment by default and decreed that 
72 cases of the product in question, the same being all that was 
found by the marshal at the time of seizure, be condemned and for- 
feited to the United States as being adulterated as charged in the 
libel and forthwith destroyed.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 31,1911.
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