5568. Adulteration of cayenne pepper.    TJ. S. v. 865% Cases of Cayenne Pepper.
Default decree  of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D.  C. No.  9170. 
Sample No. 11081-F.)
On January 11, 1943, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California filed a libel against 865% cases, each containing 12 cartons, of cayenne 
pepper at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped In 
interstate commerce on or about November 28, 1942, by Durkee Famous Foods, 
Inc., from Corona, N. Y.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance, insect fragments and rodent hair 
fragments. The article was labeled in part: (Carton) "Durkee's Cayenne 
Pepper."
On September 20,1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.