42S1. Adulteration of tomato purge. XJ. S. * * * v. 850 Cases * * * of?
Tomato Parec. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and?
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 6703.    I. S. No. 16410-k.    S. No. C-273.)
On July 7, 1915, 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 850 crises, more or less, each containing 48 cans of tomato?
purge, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Chicago, 111.,?
alleging that the product had been shipped on, April 16, 1915, and transported?
from the State of Indiana into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration was alleged in the libel for the reason that the article of food,?
when it was so-shipped as aforesaid, consisted of a partially decomposed?
vegetable substance; for the further reason that it consisted of a partially?
decomposed animal substance; for the further reason that ft consisted inpart of?
a filthy vegetable substance; and for the further reason that it consisted' in part?
of a filthy animal substance.
On September 9, 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 the proceedings in this case?
were based, did not. include a finding that the product consisted of a filthy and?
decomposed animal substance.)
GAEL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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