18694. Adulteration of tomato pulp. U. S. v. 170 Cases of Tomato Pulp. 
Default decree of destruction. (F. & D. No. 26011. I. S. No. 27413. 
S. No. 4302.)
Samples of canned tomato pulp from the shipment herein described having 
been found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.
On March 10, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 170 cases of tomato pulp, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
G. S. Suppiger Co., Belleville, Ill., on of about August 21, 1930, and had been 
transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Missouri, 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 part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On June 30, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered by the court ordering that the product be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
AETHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.