16732. Adulteration of  canned   stringless   bKans.     U.   S.  ~v.   1999   Cases   of
Canned Stringless BKans. Consent decree of condemnation and 
forfeiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 24001. I. S. 
No. 08593.    S. No. 2245.)
On September 11, 1929, 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 seizure and 
condemnation of 1,999 cases of canned stringless beans, remaining in the origi- 
nal unbroken packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by W. E. Robinson & Co., from Millenbeck, Va., on or about July 23, 
1929, and transported from the State of Virginia into the State of Massachusetts, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: " Fallston Brand Cut Green Stringless Beans * * * 
Packed for Maryland Canned Goods Co., Belair, Md."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On October 1, 1929, Thurman G. Foster, Lancaster, Va., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to 
the said claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $5,000, conditioned in part that it be salvaged under the supervision of 
this department and the adulterated portion destroyed.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.