17508. Adulteration of canned spinach.    TJ.  S. v. ?%   Cases of  Canned  Spin 
ach.     Default order of destruction entered.     (F. & D. No. 23787.    I. S. 
No. 04162.    S. 1997.)
Samples of canned spinach from the herein-described shipment having been 
found to contain decomposed material, the Secretary of Agriculture reported .' 
the matter to the United States attorney for the Southern District of West 
Virginia.
On August 15, 1929, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the said district a libel praying seizure and condem- 
nation of 9% cases of canned spinach at Huntington, W. Va., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Comstock Canneries (Inc.), from Marion, 
N. Y., on or about March 16, 1929, and transported from the State of New 
York into the State of West Virginia, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the food and drugs act The article was labeled in part: " Sweet Violet 
Brand Extra Fine Spinach * * * Mt. Morris Canning Co., Mt. Morris, 
N. Y."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted wholly or in part of a filthy, putrid, decomposed vegetable substance.
On October 7, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.