18244. Adulteration of canned pimientos.     IT. S. v. 9%  Cases of Pimientos.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 25630.    I. S. No. 9801.    S. No. 3917.)
Samples of canned pimientos from the shipments herein described having 
been found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
On or about January 5, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of nine and one-half cases of pimientos, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Appalachia, Va., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by Von-Bremen-Asche-De Bruyn (Inc.), from New York, N. Y., 
in part on or about September 3, 1930, and in part on or about October 28, 
1930, and had been transported from the State of New York into the State 
of Virginia, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: " Carola Fancy Sweet Red Peppers Pimientos 
* * * Von Bremen-Asche-De Bruyn, Inc., New York, N. Y., Sole Dis- 
tributors."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 4, 1931, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.