18227. Adulteration of canned pimientos.    U. S. v. 125 Bottles of Pimientos.
Default   decree   of   condemnation   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   No.
25330.    I. S. No. 4932.    S. No. 3598.)
Samples of pimientos contained in glass jars, taken from the shipment herein 
described, having been found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture 
reported the matter to the United States attorney for the District of New 
Hampshire.
On or about November'20, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 125 bottles (jars) of pimientos, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Manchester, N. H., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by Von Bremen-Asche-De Bruyn (Inc.), Vienna, Ga., on or about 
September 22, 1930, and had been transported from the State of Georgia into 
the State of New Hampshire, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Carola Pimientos 
*    *    *   Von Bremen-Asche & Co., New York."
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 April 2, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
condemnation was entered and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTTR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.