Notices of Judgment Under the Food and Drugs Act Volume 6001, pt. 6500

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... or about March 23, 1918, by Hugh Ledford, 'l'ullahoma,_ Tenn., and transported from the State of Tennessee into the State of Georgia, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. Adulteration of.the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted in part of a decomposed vegetable substance. On June 10, 1918, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 'of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was orderedby the court that the product should be sold at public auction by the United States marshal, after having given notice by verbal proclamation at the time of sale that the corn was adulterated in that'it consisted in part of decomposed vegetable matter. ' ' G. I. CmnSTnz, Acting Secretary of _-lgriculturc. 6244. Adulteration and Inisbranding of alfalfa hay. U. S. ' v. 213 Blles of Green Alfalfa Hly. Default decree of condemnation, f0i"feiture, and sale. (F. & D. No. 381-c.) On April 15, 1918, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, acting upon a report by the commissioner of agriculture of Georgia, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 213 bales of green alfalfa hay at Fish, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about March 25, 1918, by J. B. Horton & Co., Memphis, Tenn, and transported from the State of Tennessee into the State of Georgia, and charging adulteration and mlsbranding in violation of the Food'and Drugs Act. Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance; and for the further reason that a substance, to wit, animal excrement...