6638. Adulteration of porlc and beans. U. S. * * * v. 410 Cases Porli 
and Beans. Oceana Canning Co., claimant. Consent decree of 
condemnation and forfeiture.     Product ordered released on bond.
(F.  & D.  Nos.  7339,  7341,  7356,  7361.     I.  S.  Nos.  11368-1,  11366-1,   11369-1, 
11367-1.    S. Nos. C-488, C-486, C-495, C-500.)
On April 21, 1916 and April 26, 1916, the United States attorney for the 
Western District of Kentucky, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district libels 
praying the seizure and condemnation of 265 cases, 45 cases, and 100 cases of 
Canned Pork and Beans, consigned on March 27, 1916, by the Oceana Canning 
Co., Shelby, Mi?h., remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Louis- 
ville, Ky., alleging that the article had been shipped and transported from the 
State of Michigan into the State of Kentucky, and charging adulteration in vio- 
lation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled, in part: " Cupid 
Brand Pork and Beans.   Select quality."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels for the reason that it 
consisted of a partially decomposed vegetable substance.
On April 20, 1917, an order was entered by agreement of the parties, consoli- 
dating the cases filed under separate libels into one action, and on the same 
date the Oceana Canning Co., claimant, having withdrawn its answer and hav- 
ing elected to make no defence, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be delivered 
to said claimant upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the ex- 
ecution of a bond in the sum of $1,500, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
C. F. MABVIH, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.