10032.?Adulteration of tomato catsup.    V.S.     *     *     *     v. lO Cases     ?     ?     *
and 60 Cases * * * of Home Brand Tomato Catsup. Consent?
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under?
bond. (F. & D. No. 14130. I. S. Nos. 3571-t, 3575-t. S. Nos. C-2657,?
C-2659.)
On December 31, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Minne??
sota, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 10 cases, each containing 6 eight-pound cans, and 60 cases,?
each containing 2 dozen sixteen-ounce bottles, of Home Brand tomato catsup,?
remaining in the original unbroken packages at St. Paul, Minn., alleging that?
the article had been shipped by the J. T. Polk Co., Mound City, 111., on or?
about November 2, 1920, 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 wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable?
substance.
On September 21, 1921, the Sears & Nichols Canning Co., claimant, having?
consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered,?
and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to said claimant?
upon 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, conditioned in?
part that the product be renovated and the good portion separated from?
the bad.
C.  W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.