[Supplement 23.
4633. Adultei-ation of tomato pulp. IT. S. * * * v. SO Cases and 50 Cases?
* * * of Tomato Pulp. Default decrees of condemnation and for??
feiture.     Product ordered sold under bond.     (F. & D. No. 6991.    I. S.
Nos. 1873-1, 11125-1.    S. No. C-373.)
On November 15, 1915, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district libels for the seizure and con??
demnation of 50 and 50 cases of tomato pulp, remaining unsold in the original?
unbroken packages at Houston and Galveston, Tex., respectively, alleging that?
the article had been shipped, on or about September 24, 1915, and transported?
from the State of Maryland into the State of Texas, and charging adulteration?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The cans in the cases were labeled:?
" Seaside Brand Tomato Pulp Made from Tomatoes and Pieces of Tomatoes?
Packed by W. H. Roberts & Co., Baltimore, Md.    Contents 10 oz."
The allegations in the libels were to the effect that the article was adulter??
ated by being decomposed and putrid.
On December 22, 1915, and January 11, 1916, respectively, no claimant having?
appeared for the property, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were?
entered, and it appearing to the court that the article was not unfit or in any?
way deleterious as food for hogs, it was ordered by the court that the same?
should be sold by the United States marshal, and that the purchaser thereof?
should give a good and sufficient bond in the aggregate sum of $200, in con??
formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned that the tomato pulp should not?
be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of the Food and?
Drugs Act or to the laws of the State of Texas.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
N.J. 4601-4650.]      SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS.	183