519t>. Adulteration of canned pork and beans. TJ. S. * * * v. 25 Cases?
* * * of Pork and Beans. Befault decree of condemnation, for??
feiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 7555. I. S. No. 4845-1. S. No.?
B-656.)
On June 23, 1916, the United. States attorney for the Southern District of?
New York, 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 25 cases, each containing 2 dozen cans of pork and?
beans, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y.,?
alleging that the article had been shipped on March 31, 1916, by the Elyria?
Canning Co., Elyria, Ohio, and transported from the State of Ohio into the?
State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act. The cans were labeled in part: "Crusoe Brand Pork and Beans?
with Tomato Sauce   *    *    *   Elyria Canning Co., Elyria, Ohio."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted particularly, in whole or in part, of a filthy and decomposed vege??
table substance, to wit, decomposed beans.
On July 14, 1916, no claimant having appeared for the 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.
CAKL VBOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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