15249. Adulteration of canned succotash. IT. S. v. 33 Cases of Succotash. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond.    (F. & D. No 20662,    I. S. No. 6962-x.    S. No. B-5593.)
On December 3, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Connecti- 
cut, 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 con- 
demnation of 33 cases of canned succotash, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Hartford, Conn., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Knoxboro Canning Co., Oriskany Falls, N. Y., on or about June 29, 1925, and 
transported from the State *of New York into the State of Connecticut, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part:" Morning Light Brand Golden Succotash * * * New Hart- 
ford Canning Co., New Hartford, N. Y., Distributors-Lee Canning Co. Rome, 
*    *    * . N. Y."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that a sub- 
stance, saccharin, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part 
for the said article, in that a substance, saccharin, had been mixed therewith, 
in a manner whereby damage or inferiority was concealed, and in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient, saccharin, 
which might have rendered it injurious to health.
On December 28, 1926, the New Hartford Canning Co., Ltd., New Hartford, 
N. Y., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having con- 
sented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
:f 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 $100, conditioned in part that it be reconditioned or other- 
wise changed or disposed of in compliance with all laws, Federal and State.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.
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