2992.?Adulteration of tomato pulp.   U. S. v. 159 Barrels Tomato Pulp.   Decree of condem?
nation by default.   Product ordered destroyed.   (F. & D. No. 4871.   S. No. 1607.)
On December 9, 1912, the United States attorney for the Western District of Mich??
igan, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court?
of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 159
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BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY.	
[April, 1914.
barrels of a product purporting to be tomato pulp, remaining unsold in the original?
unbroken packages and in possession of the Thomas Canning Co., Grand Rapids,?
Mich., alleging that the product had been transported in interstate commerce from?
the State of Indiana into the State of Michigan, and charging adulteration in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled (on head of barrel) (with stencil)?
"Lexington Tomato Pulp." (Also bore tags reading) "Pulp made from cores, peel??
ings, small tomatoes. Preserved with salt. Lexington Canning Co., Lexington,?
Ind."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted?
wholly or in part of filthy, putrid, or decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 27, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of con??
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product?
should be destroyed by the United States marshal, and that the barrels in which the?
product was contained should be sold by said marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March SO, 1914-