15661.?Adulteration of canned sweet potatoes.    U. S. v?-236 Cases of Canned
Sweet Potatoes.    Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture,"land?
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 22262.  . I. S. No. 129"29-? - ?'.?' No/ -312.)
On December 5, 1927, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Washington, 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 236 cases of canned sweet potatoes, remaining in the'original?
unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that tne article had been shipped?
by the John W. Taylor Packing Co., Hall wood, Va., from Norfolk, Va., about?
October 5, 1927, and transported from the State'of Virginia into the State of?
Washington, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.?
The article was labeled in part: (Cans) " Max-I-Mum Brand Sweet Potatoes."
It was alleged in the libel that the article, was adulterated in that it con??
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On January 17, 1928, 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.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.
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