19603. Adulteration of tomato catsup.    U. S. v. SO Cases of Tomato Catsup.
Default   decree    of   condemnation,   forfeiture,    and    destructioni
(F. & D. No. 27574.    I. S. No. 12616.    S. No. 5523.)
Samples of canned tomato catsup from the shipment herein described having 
been found to contain excessive mold, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Wash- 
ington.
On December 21, 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 50 cases of the said tomato catsup, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Walla Walla, Wash., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce by the Rocky Mountain Packing Corporation 
from Murray, Utah, on or about August 14, 1931, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Royal 
Red Brand Choice Catsup * * * Distributed by Van Alen Canning Cor- 
poration, Ogden & Tremonton, Utah."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On February 19,1932, 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.