Sokol v. United States

Donlon, Judge:

The merchandise of this suit is described as beetroot powder, the product of Holland. The stipulated facts are that beets (the red, bulbous root of the beet vegetable) are sorted and washed, foreign matter is removed, thereafter the beets are reduced to powder by grinding, and the ground beets are packaged in hermetically sealed tins in which the merchandise is imported into the United States. It is a product of vegetable origin. It contains no alcohol. The powder has the red color characteristic of the matured beet. The powder is used for coloring “as a coloring agent in salad…