17182. Adulteration of  meat  scraps   and  tankagre.    U.   S.  v.   140  Bagrs   of
Sleat Scraps et al. Consent decree of condemnation. Product 
released under bond. (F. & D. No. 23856. I. S. Nos. 012994, 012994-A. 
S. NO. 1924.)
On or about April 9, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of 
Kansas, acting upon a report by an official of the State of Kansas, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 140 bags of meat scraps, and 200 bags of Digester tank- 
age, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Leavenworth, Kans., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Riverdale Products Co., 
Chicago, Ill., on or about January 21, 1929, and transported from the State 
of Illinois into the State of Kansas, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the articles were adulterated in that foreign 
matter had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part for the said 
articles.
On May 18, 1929, the Riverdale.Products Co., Chicago, Ill., having appeared 
as claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment of condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the products be released to the said claimant upon the execution of a 
bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that they be rebranded to show 
the true contents, and that the claimant pay costs of the proceedings.
ABTHTJR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.