F. & D. No. 3264.
S. No. 1205.
Issued October 17, 1912.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1709.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF TOMATO CATSUP.
On November 2, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Eastern?
District of Missouri, acting upon a report by the. Secretary of Agri??
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said?
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 400 cases each?
containing 2 dozen bottles of catsup, remaining unsold in the origi??
nal unbroken packages and in possession of the Adam Roth Grocery?
Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the product had been?
shipped on or about October 12, 1911, from the State of New Jersey?
into the State of Missouri and charging adulteration in violation of?
the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: (On cases) " 2?
Doz. No. 12 Squirrel Brand Catsup, prepared with 1-10 of 1 per cent?
Benzoate of soda. Adam Eoth Grocery Co. St. Louis." (On bottle)?
" Squirrel Brand Catsup. Contains 1-10 of 1 per cent Benzoate of?
Soda.   Distributed by Adam Roth Gro. Co., St. Louis."
Adulteration was alleged in the libel for the reason that the prod??
uct was intended for use as food and contained a large number of?
bacteria, yeasts, spores, and mold filaments, and consisted in large?
part and to an injurious extent of filthy and decomposed vegetable?
substances, and further, in that a substance, to wit, filthy and de??
composed vegetable substances, had been mixed and packed with the?
product so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality;?
and that the product was of a deleterious character within the mean??
ing of the Act.
On February 5, 1912, no claimant having appeared for the prod??
uct, and the court having found that it had been shipped in inter??
state commerce by R. V. Crine Seed Co., Morganville, N. J., judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered and it was further?
ordered that the 228 cases of the product that had been seized should?
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
JAMES WILSON,?
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 5, 1912.
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