5328. Adulteration of canned tomatoes.    U. S.    *     *     *    v. 12 Cases    *     *     * 
İf Canned Tomatoes.     Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture,
and destruction.    (F. & D. No. 7788.    I. S. No. 11441-m.    S. No. C-575.)
On October 24, 1916, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, 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 12 cases of canned tomatoes, remaining unsold in the 
original unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been 
shipped on October 18, 1916, by W. E. Robinson & Co., Chicago, Ill., and was 
in the course of transportation from the State of Illinois into the State of 
Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On December 8, 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.
R. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.