19582. Adulteration of tomato pulp.    IT. S. v. 5,588 Cans of Tomato Pulp.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond. (F. & D. No. 27690. I. S. Nos. 44841, 50137, 50600. S. No. 
5678.)
Samples of canned tomato pulp from the shipment involved in this action 
having been found to contain excessive mold, the Secretary of Agriculture 
reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois.
On or about January 28, 1932, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 5,588 cans of tomato pulp at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 28, 
1931, by the Wabash Valley Canning Co., from Attica, Ind., to Chicago, Ill., 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On March 12, 1932, the Wabash Valley Canning Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,000, conditioned 
in part that it be salvaged under the supervision of this department and should 
not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of the Federal 
food and drugs act, and all other laws.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.