6888. Adulteration of tomato saaee. II. S. * * * v. 150 Cases of Tomato?
Sauce. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc??
tion.    (P. & D. No. 9384.    I, Jg. No. ]37<M-r.    S. No. E-11&4.)
On October 10, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District?
of New York, 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 150 cases of tomato sauce, remaining unspld In the
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original unbroken packages at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had?
been shipped on or about June 18, 1918, by the Thomas Roberts Co., Windy?
Hill, Md., and transported from the State of Maryland into the State of New?
York, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The?
article was labeled in part, " Packed by the Windy Hill Packing Company?
Easton, Md.    Pure Tomato Sauce."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On November 21, 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.
C. F. MAIVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.