18406. Adulteration of canned pimientos. U. S. v. 275 Cases of Pimientos 
in Glass.    Product released under bond to be reconditioned.     (F.
& D. No. 25481.    I. S. No. 13463.    S. No. 3740.)
Samples of canned pimientos from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota.
On December 15, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 275 cases of canned pimientos, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at St. Paul, Minn, alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Pomona Products Co., from Griffin, Ga., on or about September 12, 1930, and 
had been transported from the State of Georgia into the State of Minnesota, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Jar) " Sunshine Brand Pimientos * * * First Quality 
Pomona Products Co., Griffin, Ga."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On January 31, 1931, the Pomona Products Co., Griffin, Ga., claimant, having 
consented to the condemnation and forfeiture of the product, a decree was 
entered ordering that the said product be released to the claimant, or to its 
duly authorized agent, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $1,500, conditioned in part that it be reconditioned under the super- 
vision of this department, and that it should not be sold or disposed of in viola- 
tion of the law.
ABTHXJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.