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Show ADULTERATED FOOD HAS BEEN SEIZED Washington, D. C-, Jan. 29. Upon allegations of adulteration or misbranding, mis-branding, a number of shipments of foodstuffs have been seized recently under the food and drugs act on tho recommendation of the department of ngrioulture. Trials of ca3es involving involv-ing these shipments have not yet been had, but all the cases will shortly short-ly be brought before tho courts when it will be determined whether the government's charges are Justified. Eight and one-half cases ot tomato catsup, allegod to have been shipped by Lewis Packing company, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Cal., were seized December 19, IMS, at Portland, Ore. Adulteration was charged. Part of another shipment of tomato catsup, consisting of two and one-half cases, alleged to have been shipped by Sunlit Fruit company, Berkeley, Cal.. waa seized December IS, 1913, nt Portland, Ore. Adulteration was charged. Twenty-seven barrels of tomato catsup, cat-sup, alleged to have been shipped bv Price & Lucas Cider and Vinegar Co", Loulavlllo, Ky., were seized on December De-cember 19, 1913, at New Orleans, La. One barrel of tomato catsup was alleged al-leged to bo adulterated as it consisted consist-ed in whole or In part of a filthy, de- composed putrid vegetable substance. Misbranding was also charged against the product In that the benzoate ot soda contained therein was not do-dared do-dared This seizure was made on December 19, 1913, at" New Orleans. It was alleged further, that the shipment ship-ment in question was made by the American Pickle and Canning Co., of Wiggins, Mass. At Philadelphia, Pa., on December 29, 1913, 94 bags of nutmegs were seized upon the charge that the same were adulterated in that they consisted con-sisted in part of filthy, decomposed vegetable matter. Fifteen boxes of macaroni, alleged to have been shipped by H. Dollnsky, Philadelphia, Pa., were seized at Baltimore, Bal-timore, Md., on December 2G, 1913. Misbranding was charged on tho ground that tho label implied foreign origin, whereas the goods were of domestic do-mestic manufacture. A carload of tomato pulp, alleged to have been shipped by Thomas Page of Albion, N. Y. was seized December 23, 1913, at Chicago. The government govern-ment charged that "the" product was adulterated. |
