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Show ADULTERATED f GOD BE!h" CQHSCATED Washington, D. C , Jan. 1-Cpop allegations of nduur-atlon or mis bra-tiding a number cf eh iwipdU o for.d.uuffo navo beo.i seined recently undor tno tood mJ drugs act on tho rcratnmcndutlr.ii of tho department of ngrlc-i lt'jra. Trials of cases Involving Involv-ing these -jhli.iM'nts havo not yet bees had, but all tho cases will shortly short-ly bo brought beforo tho courts when It will bo dotei mined whether the government's chnrgeg nro Justified. Eight and ono hnlf cases of tomato catsup, alleged to havo been shipped by Low Is Packing Company, San Fran Cisco, California, were selzod December Decem-ber 19, 1913, nt Portland, Oregon. Adulteration was charged. Part of anatuer shipment of tomn-to tomn-to catsup, consisting of two and one half cases, alleged to have been ship-pod ship-pod by Sunlit Fruit Company, Berkley, Berk-ley, California, was solzed December 18, 1913, at Tortlnnd, Oregon. 4 Adulteration Adul-teration was r.barged. Twenty-seven barrels of tomato catsup, alleged to havo been shipped by Price and Lu'.as Cider and vinegar vine-gar Co., Louisvi le Ky., were seized on Deccmbv 19, 1913, ht New Orle ' nns, La. u ,, , Ono barrel of tomato catsup was al'eged to bn :.,uiterated as It con 6)sted In t.uo'o or In part .of n filthy decomposed putrid vegetable substance. sub-stance. Mlabinndlng was also charged charg-ed against tho product In that tho benzoato of soda contained there In was not declared. This seizure was mado on Dasember' 19, 1913, at New Orleans. It wuo sllcgcd further that the shipment In question Was made by tho American Pickle nnd Canning Co.,' of Wiggins, Mnss. At Philadelphia, Pa., on December 29, 1913, 94 bags' of nutmegs wero seized upon' tho charge that the same wero adulterated In that they consisted con-sisted in part of filthy, decomposed vegetable matter. Fifteen boxp1; ol macaroni, alleged to have been shipped by H. Dolln-sky, Dolln-sky, Philadelphia, Pa., 'were seized at Baltimore, Md , on Docember 26, 1913. Misbranding was charged on the ground that the label Implied foreign for-eign origin, whereas the goods were of domestic iranufacture. ' A carload of tomato pulp, alleged to have been, shipped by Thomas j Page of Albion, New York, was seized seiz-ed December 23. 0:s, at Chicago. The Government charged that the product was adulterated. |
