21350. Misbranding of salad mustard.     U.  S. v. 13 Cases of Salad Mustard.
Default   decree   of   condemnation   and   destruction.      (F.   &   D.   no.
29758.    Sample no. 18179-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of mustard, the package or label 
of which failed to bear a statement of the quantity of the contents as required 
by law.
On January 21, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 13 cases of salad 
mustard at Birmingham, Ala., alleging that the article had been shipped on or 
about December 3, 1932, by the Mid-West Food Packers, Inc., from Fowlerton, 
Ind., and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as 
amended.   The article was unlabeled at the time of shipment.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that it was 
food in package form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and 
conspicuously marked on the outside of the package when shipped in interstate 
commerce.
On July 8, 1933, no claimant having appeared, for the property, judgment of 
condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WixspN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.