20065. Adulteration of  mustard  seed.    U.S.  v.   165  Bags   of  Mustard   Seed.
Consent decree ordering: product released under bond to be re- 
conditioned.     (F. & D. No. 28465.    Sample No. 10076-A.)
This action involved a lot of imported mustard seed which, upon examination, 
was found to be filthy.
On July 13, 1932, the United States attorney for the District, of New Jersey, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 165 bags of mustard seed, alleging that the article had been 
shipped in foreign commerce, by A. J. & Co., Inc., from Hull, England, to New 
York, N.Y., that it had been entered at the port of New York on or about 
August 20,1928, that it remained in the original unbroken packages at Hoboken, 
N. J., and that it was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: "A. J. & Co., England."
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 July 29, 1932, the Charles T. Wilson Co., Inc., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to' the entry of a decree con- 
demning the product, judgment was entered ordering that the goods be delivered 
to the claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $1,500, conditioned in part that it be cleaned to eliminate the filthy 
material, that it be inspected by a representative of this Department, and that 
any part which had not been properly cleaned and brought into compliance 
with the Federal Food and Drugs Act be destroyed.
R. G. TUGWBLL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.