GS50. Adulteration of canned com, V. S. * * * v. 1,943 Cases * * * of?
Canned Corn. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.?
Product ordered released on bond. (F. & L>. Nos. 9207, 9208, I. S. Nos.?
6531-r,   6552-r.     S.  Nos.   C-941-9-J5.)
On August 6, 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 G99 cases and 1,212 cases, each containing 24 cans of canned corn, at Min??
neapolis, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about Novem??
ber 15, 1917, by the Underwriters Salvage Co., Chicago, 111., and transported?
from the State of Illinois into the State of Minnesota, and charging adulteration?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On October 11, 1918, Wolpert-Davis Co., Minneapolis, Minn., having consented?
to a decree in so far as 1,200 cases of corn were concerned, and Bashaw and?
Co., Minneapolis, Minn., having consented to a decree in regard to Til cases,?
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered and it was ordered by?
the court that the product should be released to said claimants upon the pay??
ment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of bonds in the sum of?
$3,000 and ,$2,500, respectively, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
C. F. MAKVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.