4449. Adulteration of yellow split peas. , U. S. v. 221 Bass of Yellow Split Peas.
Consent decree of condemnation.    Product ordered released under bond 
for  washing-   and   segregation   and   destruction   of. the   unfit   portion.
(F. Di C. No. 8323.    Sample No. 17960-F.)
On September 9, 1942, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York filed a libel against 221 60-pound bags of yellow split peas at New 
York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped m interstate commerce 
on or about January 30, 1940, from Port Huron, Mich., for the packer/the Trinir 
dad Bean & Elevator Co., Denver, Colo.; and charging that it was adulterated in 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance.
On November 5, 1942, the Raymond-Hadley Corporation, New York, N. Y., 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered released under bond for washing and 
cleaning, and causing the peas that were wormy, moldy and otherwise unfit, 
to be segregated and destroyed, under the supervision of the Food and Drug 
Administration.
JAMS AND JELLIES