10681. Adulteration of tomato catsup. IT. S. * * * v. 400 Cases of?
Polk's Tomato Catsup. Consent decree of condemnation and for??
feiture. Product released on bond for sorting and destruction of?
adulterated   catsup   and   salvaging   of   containers.     (F.    &   D.   Nos.
14808,  14809.    I.   S. Nos.  2551-t,  2552~t.     S. No.  C-2983.)
On April 19, 1921, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Louisiana, 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 400 cases of Polk's tomato catsup at Shreveport, La., alleg??
ing that the article had been shipped on or about December 1, 1920, by J. T.?
Polk Co., Mound City, 111., and transported from the State of Illinois into the?
State of Louisiana, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, " Polk's Best Catsup, J. T. Polk?
Co. Chicago."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable sub??
stance.
On October 15, 1921, the case having come on for final disposition upon the?
answer of Sears & Nichols Canning Co., intervenor, and stipulation of the?
parties, it was ordered by the court that the product might be released to said?
intervenor, upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of?
a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $100, in conformity with section 10 of?
the act, conditioned in part that the product be sorted under the- supervision
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of this department and the adulterated catsup destroyed, and providing that?
the bottles, screw caps, boxes, and fillers of all the goods might be salvaged by?
said intervenor.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.