5540. Adulteration of beans with tomato sauce. TJ. S. * * * -v. 200 Cases 
* * * Mamma's Choice Brand Baked Beans with Tomato Sauce. 
Consent decree of- condemnation and forfeitnx-e. Prod act ordered 
released on bond.     (F. & D. No. 7359.    I. S. No. 11472-1.    S. No. C-498.)
On May 2, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 200 cases, each containing 2 dozen cans of Mamma's Choice 
Brand baked beans with tomato sauce, remaining unsold in the original un- 
broken packages at Ottumwa, Iowa, alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or about January 20, 1916, by the Norfolk Packing Co., Norfolk, Nebr., 
and transported from the State of Nebraska into the State of Iowa, and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance unfit for 
food.
On March 16, 1917, the said Norfolk Packing Co., a corporation, claimant, 
having consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be released 
to said claimant upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the 
execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the 
act, conditioned in part that the cans of beans should be opened, cleaned, re- 
picked, recanned, and reprocessed under the supervision of a representative 
of this department, the decomposed and partly decomposed beans to be re- 
moved from the product and destroyed.
CAEL YKOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture* 
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