33S1. Adulteration of pork and beans with tomato sauce. U. S. v. 500?
Cases of Pork, and Beans with Tomato Sauce. Default decree of?
condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D, No. 5558. I. S.?
No. 5177-h.    S. No. 210S.)
On February 4, 1914, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure?
and condemnation of 500 cases, each containing 24 cans of pork and beans?
with tomato sauce, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages?
at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the product had been shipped on or about?
December 8, 1913, and transported from the State of Michigan into the State?
of Missouri, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act. The cases were labeled: " 2 doz. No. 2 1/2 cans. Park Brand Pork &?
Beans Tomato Sauce. Packed by Thomas Canning Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.";?
the cans .were labeled: " Park Brand Pork and Beans with Tomato Sauce.?
Thomas Canning Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Thomas Canning Co., Grand Rapids,?
Mich. Packers of Quality. Guaranteed by Thomas Canning Co. under the?
Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. Serial No. 5076. Thomas Canning Co.?
Packers of Quality. Grand Rapids, Mich. Contents 2 Lbs. Park Brand Pork?
and Beans with Tomato Sauce.   Thomas Canning Co.   Grand Rapids, Mich."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that each?
of the cans, was filled with a vegetable substance which consisted in whole or?
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and [or] putrid vegetable substance, containing?
partly moldy beans, badly moldy and musty beans, and mold in said tomato?
sauce, and which were mixed and colored in a manner whereby damage and?
inferiority were concealed.
On March 28, 1914, no claimant having appeared for Jhe property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
D. F. HOUSTON, Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 24, 1914.