13480.  Adulteration  of tomato  paste.    V.  S. v. 530 Cans  of Tomato Paste. 
Default    decree    of    condemnation,    forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 19985.    I. S. No. 14379-v.    S. No. E-5283.)
On April 13, 1925, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 530 cans of tomato paste, consigned by Wm. 
Silver & Co. (Inc.), Georgetown, Del., remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Cambridge, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped from 
Georgetown, Del., in part November 3, 1924, and in part November 14, 1924, 
and transported from the State of Delaware into the State of Massachusetts, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part " Venetian Queen Brand Tomato Paste * * * Pre- 
pared By The Townsend Co. Georgetown, Del."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed vegetable 
substance.
On June 29, 1925, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.