27429. Adulteration of canned apple sauce.     U. S. v. 900 Gases of Apple Sauce.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond for salvaging.     (F. & D. no. 39276.    Sample no. 25575-C.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On or about March 29, 1937, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 900 cases of 
apple sauce at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about January 22, 1937, by the National Fruit Product 
Co. Inc., from Winchester, Va., and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. It was labeled in part: (Cans) "Marshall Seal Apple 
Sauce   Distributed by Marshall Food Products Co.   Marshalltown, Iowa."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 27, 1937, the National Fruit Product Co., Inc., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered that the 
product be released under bond for salvaging the good portion.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.