24590. Adulteration of tomato catsup.     XI.  S. v. 269 Cases, et al., of Catsup.
Decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. nos.  34691, 34745, 
34987.    Sample nos. 25220-B, 25274-B, 27959-B.)
These cases involved tomato catsup that contained excessive mold.
On January 5 and January 10, 1935, the United States attorney for the 
Northern District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation 
of 661 cases of catsup at Chicago, Ill. On January 22, 1935, a libel was filed 
in the Eastern District of Missouri against 110 cases of tomato catsup at St. 
Louis, Mo. The libels alleged that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce in part on or about October 2, 1934, and in part on or about 
December 31, 1934, by the Snider Packing Corporation, from Fairmount, Ind., 
and that it was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: "Snider Catsup * * * Snider Packing Cor- 
poration General Office Rochester, N. T."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted) wholly or in 
part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On April 3 and April 4, 1935, the cases having been called and the Snider 
Packing Corporation, the sole intervener, having waived its claim to the product, 
judgments of condemnation were entered and it was ordered that the product 
be destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.