4215. Adulteration of .tomato eonserve. ' V.? S. * * * v. 12 Cases of To??
mato Conserve. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, ajad?
destruction.    (P. & D. No, 648?.    I. S. No. 769-k.    S. No, E-259.)
On April 26, 1915, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu??
setts, 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 condem??
nation of 12 cases of tomato conserve remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped and trans??
ported from the State of New York into the State of Massachusetts, and charg??
ing adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the?
same consisted in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 20, 1915, 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.
(The report of this department, upon which proceedings in this case_ were?
based, did not include a finding that the article consisted of a putrid vegetable?
substance.)
0. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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