886. Adulteration of tomato catsup.    U. S. v. 99 Cases and 59 Cases of Tomato
Catsup.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D. C. Nos.
1394, 2043.   Sample Nos. 56469-D, 12547-E.)
Samples of this product were found to contain fragments of insect larvae and 
other filth resulting from insect infestation.
On January 23 and May 28, 1940, the United States attorney for the District 
of Massachusetts filed libels against 158 cases of tomato catsup at Boston, Mass., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
December 8, 1939, and May 1, 1940, by the California Conserving Co. Inc., 
from San Francisco, Calif.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance. It was labeled in part: 
(Bottles) "Monitor Brand Tomato Catsup."
On October 21, 1940, the California Conserving Co., Inc., claimant, having failed 
to file answers to the libels, and being in default, judgments of condemnation 
were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.