14857. Adulteration of canned corn.    U.  S. v. 500 Cases of Canned Corn.
Default  decree  of destruction  entered.     (F.  & D.  No.  20846.     I.  S.
No. 644-x.    S. No. W-1881.)
On or about February 13, 1926, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of California, 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 500 cases of canned corn, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Wilmington, Calif., consigned by W. E. Robinson & Co., 
alleging that the article had been shipped from Baltimore, Bid., on or about 
December 19, 1925, and transported from the State of Maryland into the State 
of California, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Can) " Scotland Brand Shoe-Peg Sugar Corn 
* * * Packed by F. W. Smith & Son Belcamp, Md. U. S. A.," (carton) 
" Scotland Brand Shoe Peg Sugar Corn Packed by F. W. Smith and Sons, 
Belcamp. Md."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable 
substance.
On May 15, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of the court was entered, finding the product adulterated and ordering that it 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.