7219. Adulteration of Chili peppers.   TJ. S.   *   *   *   v. 10 Sacks of Chili Peppers.   Consent
decree of conderanation and forfeiture.   Product ordered released on bond.   (F. &
D. No. 9920.   I. S. No. 7802-r.   S. No. C-1110.)
On March 20, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 
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 10 sacks of 
Chili peppers, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at St. Louis, Mo., 
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about February 11, 1919, by Joannes 
Brothers Co., Buena Park, Calif., and transported from the State of California into the 
State of Missouri, and charging 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 large part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance and 
was unfit for human food.
On March 31, 1919,.the Sellers-Brown Coffee Co., St. Louis, Mo., claimant, having 
consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it 
was ordered by the court that the product be sorted, the portion found unfit for food
consumption to be destroyed, and the remaining portion found suitable and fit for food 
consumption should not contain any decomposed vegetable matter.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of'Agriculture.