9708. Adulteration of tomato catsup.    U.  S.     *     *     *     v. 750  Cases  of To¬
mato Catsup * * * Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product ordered released under bond for destruction, the con- 
tainers  to  be   retained  by  claimant.     (P.  &  D.   No.   13858.    I.   S.   No.
10142-t.    S. No.  W-787.)
On November 12, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Washington, 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 750 cases of tomato catsup, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the T. A. Snider Preserve Co., from Mount Carmel, Ill., September 14, 1920, 
and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Washington, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part, " Snider's Tomato Catsup * * * Manufactured by the 
T. A. Snider Preserve Company, Chicago, U. S.    *    *    * "
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On December 7, 1920, Spohn and Russell having entered an appearance as 
claimant for the property, judgment was entered ordering that upon payment of 
the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $4,000, 
in conformity with section 10 of the act, the product be released to said 
claimant to be shipped to Mount Carmel, Ill., for the purpose of destruction, and 
that the bottles or containers remain the property of the claimant.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.