15715. Adulteration of tomato puree. U. S. v. 650 Cases of Tomato Puree. 
Default decree of forfeiture and destruction. (P. & D. No. 21972. 
I. S. No. 16397-x.    S. No. E-6067J
On July 11, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District ot 
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 praying seizure and 
condemnation of 650 cases of tomato puree, remaining in the original packages 
at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Farmers 
Canning Co., Duureith, Ind., May 23, 1927, and transported from the State of 
Indiana into the State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act.
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, or putrid vegetable substance.
On September 2, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.