11012. Adulteration and misbranding of caraway seed and coriander seed.?
IT. S. v. 158 Bags of Caraway Seed and 522 Bags of Coriander Seed.?
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture with respect to?
the caraway seed and product released under bond. Default de??
cree of condemnation, forfeiture, and sale with respect to the?
coriander seed. (F. & D. Nos. 35758, 15759. I. S. Nos. 15553-t, 15554-t.?
S. Nos. E-3781, &-3782.)
On April 22, 1922, the United States attorney for the Southern 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 158 bags of caraway seed and 522 bags of coriander seed,?
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleg??
ing that the article had been shipped by S. C. Coriat, from Casablanca, Morocco,?
entering on or about April 24 and 26, 1919, respectively, and transported from?
a foreign country into the State of New York, and charging adulteration and?
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the articles was alleged in the libel for the reason that each?
wras sold under and by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia?
and differed from the standard of strength, quality, or purity as determined?
by the test laid down in the said Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of investi??
gation. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that excessive dirt,?
foreign seeds, and stems had been mixed and packed with and substituted?
wholly or in part for the said caraway seed, and that excessive foreign matter?
and bored seeds had been mixed and packed with and substituted wholly or?
in part for the coriander seed.?
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the said articles were imitations?
of and were offered for sale under the names of other articles.
On October 7, 1922, Julius Loewith, Inc., New York, N. Y., having entered?
an appearance as claimant for the caraway seed and having consented to the?
entry of a decree with respect to the same, and no claimant having appeared?
for the coriander seed, judgment was entered providing for the condemnation?
and forfeiture of both products, and it was ordered by the court that the?
caraway seed be released to the claimant therefor upon payment of the costs?
of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in con??
formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be exported as?
an adulterated and misbranded product, and that the coriander seed be sold?
by the United States marshal, and that the purchaser thereof execute a bond?
in the sum of $2,500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in?
part that it be used for technical purposes only, or exported beyond the juris??
diction of the United States.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.