3762. Adulteration of tomato paste.    IT. S. v. 700 Cases of Tomato Paste  (and 2
other seizure actions against tomato paste). Default decrees of con- 
demnation and destruction. (F: D. C. Nos. 6513, 6515-6517, incl. Sample 
Nos. 22869-E, 22870-E, 23239-E, 23240-E, 237Q1-E, 23702-E, 23703-E.)
•]¦ On December 15, 16, and 29, 1941, the United States attorney for the District 
of Maryland, the Eastern District of Louisiana, and the Eastern District of New 
York filed libels against 2,840 cases of tomato paste at New Orleans, La., 325 
cases at Baltimore, Md., and 1,000 cases at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about November 19 and 22, 
1941, by Herschel California Fruit Products Co., Inc., from San Jose, Calif,; 
and charging that it was adulterated in that, it consisted in whole or in part 
of a decomposed substance. The article was labeled in part: "Contadina [or 
^'Pacific Star"] Tomato Paste."
• On January 17,: 1942, an order was entered in the District of Maryland, per- 
mitting the packer, Herschel California Fruit Products Co., Inc., and the Govern- 
ment to take samples; and ordering: that 10 cases which had been seized but 
were not included'in the libel, lie returned to the owner. On March 30, April 8, 
and June 23, 1942, no claim having been entered, judgments of condemnation 
were entered, and the product was ordered destroyed.