6730.?Adulteration of tomato ctitsup.    U. S.   *    *    *   v. 178 Cases of-Tomato
Catsup. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product?
ordered released on bond,     (F. & D. No. 9086.    I. S. No. 9454-p.    S. No.
C-915.)
On June 24, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota,?
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 178 cases of tomato catsup, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Minneapolis, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped on?
or about November 12, 1917, by the Brooks Tomato Products Co., Collinsville,?
111., and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Minnesota,?
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The?
article was labeled in part, " St. Clair Brand Tomato Catsup. Mfg. by Brooks?
Tomato Products Co., Collinsville, 111,"
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 24, 1919, the said Brooks Tomato Products 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 the execution?
of a bond in the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
J. R. RIGGS, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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