5324. Adulteration of canned tomatoes. U. S. * * * v. 2,000 Cases of 
Canned Tomatoes. Consent decree of condemnation and for- 
feiture.     Product   ordered   released   on   bond.      (F.   &   D.   No.   7782.
I. S. No. 6212-m.    S. No. C-580.)
On October 25, 1916, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, Lied in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 2,000 cases of canned tomatoes, remaining unsold in the 
original unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been 
shipped on October 11, 1916, by the Little Bay Ice Co., Whitestone, Va., and 
transported from the State of Virginia into the State of Illinois, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that water 
had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously 
affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for said article.
On January 23, 1917, the said Little Bay Ice Co., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be released 
to said claimant upon the 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, conditioned in part that the product should be relabeled in such manner 
as to show that it contained added water.
E. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,