13972. Adulteration    of    tomato    puree.       IT.    S.    v.    9%     Cases    of    Tomato
Puree.    Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. No. 20626.    I. S. No. 5442-x.    S. No. E-5578.)
On November 18, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of 
Massachusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 94 cases of tomato puree, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at New Bedford, Mass., alleging that the. article 
had been shipped by the Keough Canning Co., from Glassboro, N. J., October 
7, 1925, and transported from the State of New Jersey into the State of 
Massachusetts, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Holly Bush Brand Tomato 
Puree Packed By Keough Canning Co. Glassboro, N. J."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On December 19, 1925, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.