14745. Adulteration  of  canned  corn.     U.   S.  v.   148  Cases   of  Canned   Corn.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 20709.    I. S. No. 4261-x.    S. No. C-5036.)
On or about December 15, 1925, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 148 cases of canned corn, at Woodward, Okla., 
consigned by the New Hartford Canning Co., Pennellville, N. Y., alleging that 
the article had been shipped from Pennellville, N. Y., on or about July. 18, 
1925, and transported from the State of New York into the State of Oklahoma, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Can) " Forget-me-not Brand Golden Sweet Corn * * * 
Knoxboro Canning Co., Knoxboro, New York."
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was adulterated, in 
that a substance, saccharin, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
substituted wholly or in part for the said article, for the further reason that 
saccharin had been mixed therewith in a manner whereby damage or inferiority 
was concealed, and for the further reason that the article contained an added 
poisonous and deleterious ingredient, saccharin, which might have rendered it 
injurious to health.
On November 27, 1926, the New Hartford Canning Co., New Hartford, N. Y., 
having appeared as claimant for the property and having consented to the 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and 
it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant 
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it not be transported in interstate 
commerce except for the purpose of being returned to the manufacturing 
establishment at New Hartford, N. Y., and not be sold or disposed of contrary 
to the provision of any Federal or State laws which prohibit the use of 
saccharin in like products for human consumption.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.