5754. Adulteration of tomatoes. IT. S. * * * v. 400 Cases * * * of 
* * * Tomatoes. Consent decree of condemnation and forfei- 
ture.    Product released on bond.     (F & D. No. 8056.    I. S. No. 11114-m.
S. No. C-643.)
On or about February 5, 1917, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Iowa, 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 400 cases of tomatoes, remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at Davenport, Iowa, alleging that the article had been 
shipped on or about November 25, 1916, by the Booth Packing Co., Baltimore, 
Md, and transported from the State of Maryland into the State of Iowa, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was 
labeled in part, " Booths Tomatoes    *    *    *    Oval Brand."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that added 
water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for 
the article.
On June 25, 1917, the said Booth Packing Co., claimant, having consented to 
a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it. was 
ordered by the court that the product should be released 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, conditioned in part that the 
product should be relabeled and branded so as plainly to indicate the presence 
of added water,
CABL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.