5104. Adulteration of poi'Ic and beans with tomato sauee, U. S. * * *?
v. 475 Cases * * * Porlt and Beans. Consent decree of con??
demnation   and   forfeiture.      Product   ordered   released   on   bond.
(F. & D. No. 7365.    I. S. No. 12447-1.    S. No. C-504.)
On April 29, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern 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 475 cases, each containing- 2 dozen cans of pork and beans,
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Peoria, 111., alleging that
the article had been shipped on February 16, 1916, by the Wisconsin Pea Can-
ners Co., Manitowoc, Wis., and transported from the State of Wisconsin into
the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and
Drugs Act    The  article was  labeled  in part: " Eureka  Brand  High  Grade
Pure Food Products Pork and Beans with tomato sauce    Quality guaranteed?
*    $    $ >?
It was charged in substance in the libel that the article was adulterated for?
the reason that it consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On October 26, 1916, the saicl Wisconsin Pea Canners Co., claimant, having?
appeared and consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture?
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be re??
delivered to said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and?
the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of?
the act.
GAEL YROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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