10853.?Adulteration of tomato catsup.    L\ S. v. 210 Cases of Catsup.    Decree
ordering release of product under bond. (F. & D. No. 14657. I. S.?
No. 2987-t.    S. No. C-2888.)
On March 22, 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 210 cases of catsup, at Shreveport, La., alleging that the?
article had been shipped by J. T. Polk Co., from Mound City, 111., on or about?
November 23, 1920, 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: " Contents One Pound Avd. 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 Sears & Nichols Canning Co. (successors to the?
J. T. Polk Co.) having intervened as claimant for the property, judgment of?
the court was entered ordering that the product be released to the said claimant?
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a good and?
sufficient bond, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part?
that the bad portion be segregated by the said claimant from the good portion?
and destroyed and that the portion considered to be good by said claimant be?
released only upon examination and approval of this department, and that the?
said claimant be permitted to salvage all bottles, screw caps, boxes, and fillers?
of the goods.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.