18015. Adulteration of canned  pimientos.    U.  S.  v. 20 Cases  of Pimientos
in   Glass.     Default   decree   of   destruction   entered.     (F.   &   D.   No.
25424.    I. S. No. 15529.    S. No. 3697.)
Samples of canned pimientos from the herein-described shipment having been 
found to be underprocessed and decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture re- 
ported the matter to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
New York.
On December 1, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 20 cases of pimientos in glass, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Pomona Products Co., from Griffin, Ga., on or about September 18, 1930, 
and had been transported from the State of Georgia into the State of New York, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: " Stanley Brand Pimientos * * * C. Borghardt Inc., 
Distributors, Brooklyn, N. Y."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it was 
underprocessed and consisted in large part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed 
vegetable substance.
On December 29, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.