8960.?Adulteration of tomato catsup.   U. S.   *   *   *   v. 1,549 Cases and 76 Cases   *   *   *
of Queen-of the Valley Brand Catsup.   Product ordered released on bond.   (F. & D.
Nos. 9399, 9401.   I. S. Nos. 6458-r, 6459-r.   S. Nos. C-992. C-993.)
On October 17 and 18, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Michigan, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district libels for the seizure and condemnation of
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1,549 cases and 76 cases of Queen of the Valley Brand Catsup, remaining unsold in the?
original unbroken packages at Lansing, Mich., alleging that the article had been?
shipped on September 6, 1918, and October 18, 1917, from Shirley, Ind., by the Brooks?
? Tomato-Products Co., Collinsville, I1L, and transported from the State of Indiana into?
the State of Michigan, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act.   The article was labeled in part, "Queen of the Valley Catsup   *   *   *."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libels for the reason that?
it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 19, 1919, the said Brooks Tomato Products Co., claimant, having paid the?
costs of the proceedings and having tendered bond in the aggregate sum of $1,000, in?
conformity with section 10 of the act, it was ordered by the court that the product be?
released and delivered to said claimant.
E. D. BALL,' Acting Secretary of Agriculture.