3.550. Adulteration of tomato paste. IT. S. v. 300 Cases, More or Less, of Tomato Paste.?
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 5544,?
5545.   I. S. Nos. 341-h, 343-h.   S. No. 2084.)
On January 19,1914, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois,?
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 300 cases?
of tomato paste, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Chicago, 111.,?
alleging that the product had been shipped on November 15, 1913, and transported?
from the State of New Jersey into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in?
violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted in?
part of a filthy vegetable substance; for the further reason that it consisted wholly of a?
filthy vegetable substance; for the further reason that it consisted in part of a decom??
posed vegetable substance; and for the final reason that it consisted wholly of a de??
composed vegetable substance.
On September 21, 1914, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the?
product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, January IS, 1915.
S. R. A.—Chem. Suppl. 2.