3196.?Adulteration of catsup.   U. S. v. 1 Barrel of Catsup.     Default decree
of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.    (F.   &   D.   No.   5359.
S. No. 1963.)
On October 18, 1913, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of?
Louisiana, acting upon ft 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 1 barrel of catsup, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
package at New Orleans, La., alleging that the product had been shipped on?
or about October 8, 1913, by the National Pickle and Canning Co., St. Louis,?
Mo., and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Louisiana,?
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. It was?
alleged in the libel that the product constituted an article of food within the?
meaning and intent of the act of Congress of June 30, 1906, and that the same?
was in a state of decomposition, filthy, and a putrid, decomposed vegetable sub??
stance, and was adulterated within the meaning and intent of that act and?
especially of paragraph 6 of section 7 thereof, and was subject to seizure, con??
demnation, and destruction.
Supplement.]    SERVICE  AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS.	385
On November 25, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26, 191?.