14561. Adulteration of  canned  peas.     TJ.  S.  v. 275  Cases   of  Canned Peas.
Decree of condemnation and forfeiture entered. Product re- 
leased under bond. (F. & D. No. 20593. I. S. No. 1261-x. S. No. 
C-4858.)
On November 10, 1925, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 275 cases of canned peas, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Bloomington, Ill., consigned September 9, 1924, alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Barron County Canning & Pickle Co., 
Chetek, Wis., and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State of 
Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that a substance, to wit, brine, had 
been mixed and packed with the article so as to reduce or lower or injuriously 
affect its quality or strength and that brine had been substituted in part for 
the said article, in violation of paragraphs 1 and 2 under food, in section 7 
of the act.
On December 20, 1926, Campbell, Holton & Co., Bloomington, Ill., having 
appeared as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings 
and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it 
not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.