6530. Adulteration of tomato puree. U. S. */ * * v. 200 Cases of Tomato?
Puree. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Good?
portion of product ordered released on bond. Unfit portion or??
dered destroyed.     (P. & D. No. 8729.    I. S. No. 16139-p.    S. No. W-211.)
On January 15, 1918, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 200 cases, each containing 6 tins of tomato puree, consigned?
on or about December 21, 1917, by George H. Hooke, San Francisco, Calif.,?
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging?
that the article had been shipped and transported from the State of California?
into the State of Washington, and charging adulteration in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, " Hooke's Tomato Puree?
*    *    *   Packed by Sunny Vale Canneries, Sunny Vale, Calif."
Adulteration of the articles was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con??
sisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On September 6, 1918, the said George H. Hooke, claimant, having consented?
to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was?
ordered by the court that the portion found fit for human consumption and sale?
should be released to said claimant upon the payment of the costs of the pro??
ceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $250, in conformity with?
section 10 of the act, and the portion found unfit for food should be destroyed?
by the United States marshal.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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