6437. Adulteration of oats. IT. S. * * * v. 400 Sacks of Oats. Consent?
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered released?
on bond.    (F. & D. No. 8648.    I. S. No. 9392-p.    S. No. C-777.)
On December 15, 1917, the United States attorney for the Northern District?
of Mississippi, 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 sacks of oats, at Rosedale, Miss., consigned on or?
about November 27, 1917, alleging that the article had been shipped by the?
Samuel Hastings Co., Cairo, 111., and transported from the State of Illinois?
into the State of Mississippi, and charging adulteration, in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, " Samuel Hastings, Cairo,?
111., Uncle Sam Fancy White Oats."
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, lower, and inju??
riously affect its quality, and had been substituted in part for oats, which the?
article purported to be.
On April 13, 1918, the said Samuel Hastings 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 delivered to said claimant?
upon the payment of the costs of the'proceedings and-then execution of a bond?
in the sum of $300, in conformity withisection 10 of the-act.
C. F. MABVUST, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.ii
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