3224. Adulteration of ground black pepper.    U. S. v. 4 Barrels of Black Pepper.
Default decree Of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D.   C.  No.   6551.
Sample No. 80267-E.) 
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This product contained rodent hairs and insect fragments. 
Oh December 22, 1941, the United States attorney for the District of Mass- 
achusetts filed a libel against 4 barrels of black pepper at Maiden, Mass., alleg- 
ing that the article had.been. shipped in interstate commerce on or about, Sep- 
. tember
' 8, 1941, by Wood. & Seiick, Inc., from New York; N. Y.; and charging that 
it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance; 
and in that it had been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby it might 
have become contaminated with filth.   The article was labeled in part: (Barrels) 
"Favorite Brand Black Pepper." 
On March 23, 1942,. no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered, and the product was ordered destroyed,  .