19083. Adulteration of ice cream cones.    U.  S. v.  154 Cases, et al., of Ice
Cream Cones. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction. (F. & D. No. 26359. I. S. Nos. 18231, 18232, 18233. S. No. 
4690.)
Samples of ice cream cones from the shipment herein described having been 
found to contain saccharin, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Southern District of Iowa.
On May 14, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the district aforesaid 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 278 cases of ice cream cones at
Des Moines, Iowa, alleging that the article had been shipped on or about 
March 27, 1931, by the Northwest Cone Co., from Chicago, Ill., and had been 
transported in interstate commerce from the State of Illinois into the State 
of Iowa, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: " Joy Boy Cup Cake Cones [or " Buddy Ice 
Cream Cake Cones " or " Rosebud Cup Cake Cones "] Northwest Cone Co."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, saccharin, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, 
lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength and had been substituted 
in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason 
that the article contained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, 
saccharin, which might have rendered it harmful to health.
On January 8, 1932, no claimant having appeared and the court having 
heard the evidence and argument of counsel for the Government, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.