G202. Adulteration of evaporated milk. IT. S. * * * v. 12 Casfes of Evap??
orated Milk. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de??
struction.     (F. & D. No. 8675.    I. S. No. 10136-p.    S. No. W-209.)
On December 29, 1917, the United States attorney for the Western District?
of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in?
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel of information?
prajing the seizure and condemnation of 12 cases of evaporated milk, consigned?
on or about November 11, 1917, by Haas & Baruch, Wilmington, Cal., remaining?
unsold in the original unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the?
article had been shipped and transported from the State of California into the?
State of Washington, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, " Mount Vernon Evaporated Milk,?
Mount Vernon Cream Company    *    *    *    Seattle, Washington."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance In the libel of informa??
tion for the reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed?
animal substance.
On February 4, 1918, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
G. I. CHRISTIE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,
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