16169. Adulteration of tomato puree .  U.   S.  v.  40  Cases  of Tomato  Puree.
Default    decree    of    condemnation,    forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 23254.    I. S. No. 03175.    S. No. 1342.)
On December 17, 1928, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, 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 40 cases of tomato puree, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Chester, Pa., consigned by Wm. Laning & Son Co., Bridgeton, 
N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped from Bridgeton, N. J., on or 
about October 6, 1928, and transported from the State of New Jersey into the 
State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Silver Lake Whole Tomato Puree 
*    *    *    Packed by Wm. Laning & Son Co."
It was alleged in the liber that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy vegetable substance.
On January 8, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
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. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.