0055. Adulteration of catsup. U. S. * * * v. 932 Cases of Tomato Catsup.?
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered?
released on bond.     (P. & D. No. 8918.    I. S. No. 8944-p.     S. No. C-804.)
On April 3, 1918, the United States attorney for the Western District of Mis??
souri, acting upon report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States- for said district a libel for the seizure and con??
demnation of 922 cases of tomato catsup, remaining unsold in the original un??
broken packages at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been?
shipped on or about November 8, 1917, by the Goddard Packing Co., Ogden,?
Utah, and transported from the State of Utah into the State of Missouri, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the Pood and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con??
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On August 1, 1919, the said Goddard Packing Co., claimant, having consented?
io 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 $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that?
the product should be shipped to Ogden, Utah, for reprocessing under the?
supervision of a representative of this department.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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