7235. Adulteration of canned sweet potatoes.   TJ. S.   *   *   *   v. 1650 Cases of Canned Sweet
Potatoes.   Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D.,
No. 10010.   I. S. Nos. 15554-r, 1555.5-r.   S. No. E-1291.)
On April 15, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 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 1650 cases of canned 
sweet potatoes, consigned on November 18, 1916, and November 24, 1916, remain- 
ing unsold in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Paynter Pacldng Co., Paynter, Va., and trans- 
ported from the State of Virginia into the State of Maryland, and charging' adultera- 
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 19, 1919, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the 
product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.