-5115. Attalt-ei-atio-sa suad uiisijrajadin.gr ?f jpork: sunl beans, C. S. * * * v.?
300 G?s.es * * * -of aPoi-lc ?iid Beans. Uefaalt ^eei*ee of eom-?
ademawitSon., forfeMm-e, smA stile. (P. & D. No. 7391. I. S. No. 11811-1.?
S. No. C-515.)
On May 6, 1916, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, acting?
upon a, report by the Secretary of Agriculture, Hied in the District Court of the?
United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 200?
cases, each containing 2 dozen cans of pori and beans, remaining unsold in the?
original unbroken packages at Leavenworth, Kans., alleging that the article had?
been shipped on or about March 15, 1916, by the Wisconsin Pea Oanners Co.,?
Manitowoc, Wis., and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State?
of Kansas, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the?
Pood and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Eureka Brand High?
Grade Pure Food Products Pork and Beans with tomato sauce. Quality -Guaran??
teed    *    *    *"
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason?
that it contained a large quantity of filthy and decomposed vegetable product?
and a large quantity of annatto, an artificial coloring matter, all of which?
had been mixed and packed with and substituted for the pure product in such a?
manner as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality and strength.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the labels on said cases did not?
truthfully state the correct nature of the contents contained in said cases ?nd?
cans, a*nd the labels were false and misleading and calculated to induce the?
purchaser to believe that the article was pure -and wholesome, when, in truth?
and in fact, it was adulterated as hereinbefore set forth.
On February 5, 1917, defaults of all parties having been noted, judgment of?
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that?
the product should be sold by the United States marshal, and that the purchaser?
should give bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned that the product be not sold or?
offered for sale as human food or otherwise, or transported in interstate com??
merce, and that the costs of the proceedings should be paid out of the proceeds?
of the sale.
CABL VEOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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