4433. Adulteration of tomato puree,    IT. S. v. 699 Cases of Tomato Puree  (and
3 other seizure actions against tomato puree). Default decrees of 
condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 8571, 8653, 8671, 8883. 
Sample Nos. 17993-F, 19530-F, 24126-F, 28134-F.)
Between October 15 and November 16,1942, the United States attorneys for the 
Southern District of Florida, Southern District of New York, District of Co- 
lumbia, and District of Massachusetts, filed libels against 699 cases of tomato 
puree a% Tampa, Fla., 196 cases at New York, N. Y., 450 cases at Washington, 
D. C., and 51 eases at Worcester, Mass., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce within the period from on or about September
2 to on or about October 19, 1942, by Wm. Laning & Sons Co. from Bridgetpn, 
N. J.; and charging that'it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a decomposed substance. The article was labeled in part: (Can) 
"Silver Lake Brand Whole Tomato Purees "Premier Tomato Puree * * * 
Francis H. Leggett & Co. Distributors," or-"Good Year * * * Tomato 
Puree    *    *    *   Mazo-Lerch Co. Incorporated Distributors Washington D. C."
On November 23, December 24, 1942, January 18 and February 1, 1943, the 
claimant for the seizure at Tampa, Fla., having withdrawn the claim and answer 
filed in that proceeding and no claim having been entered in the other cases, 
judgments of condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.