16431. Adulteration of sweet pickles.    U. S. v. 13% Cases of Sweet Pickles. 
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.    (F. &
D. No. 22894.    I. S. No. 01427.    S. No. 964.)
On July 21, 1928, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 13% cases of sweet pickles, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Harrisburg, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Louis Maull Co. Food Products Co., from St. Louis, Mo., on or about May 17, 
1928, and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: " Top Notch Pickles One Quart Sweet Packed by L. Maull 
Co., St., Louis, Mo."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, to wit, saccharin, had been mixed and packed with the said article so as 
to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength, and in that a 
deleterious ingredient, saccharin, had been added which might have rendered 
the article injurious to health.
On May 6, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.