5728. Adulteration of porlc and bKans. U. S. * * * v. 650 Cases * * * 
Porlc and BKans. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
sale.     (F. & D. No. 7985.    I. S. No. 11531-m.    S. No. C-631.)
On January 16, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure 
and condemnation of 650 cases of pork and beans, remaining unsold in the 
original unbroken packages at Dodge City, Kans., alleging that the article 
had been shipped on or about November 4, 1916, by the Union Packing Co., 
Omaha, Nebr., and transported from the State of Nebraska into the State of 
Kansas, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part, " Front Rank Brand Pork and BKans. Packed 
by Union Packing Co. Omaha Neb."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On April 3, 1917, 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 sold by the United States marshal and that the 
purchaser should execute a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned that the prod- 
uct would not be sold or transported in interstate commerce or sold for human 
food in violation of the laws of the United States or of the State of Kansas.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.