Provimi, Inc. v. United States

This case presents a novel question in food and drug law, whether the erstwhile owner of adulterated products that have been condemned under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act retains any interest in those products, com-pensable in this court, between the time of their condemnation and the time that the erstwhile owner obtains their release for reconditioning. Plaintiff complains with respect *622to certain of its products that had been so condemned that defendant engaged in meritless and dilatory opposition to its efforts to obtain release and that release was delayed so long that the…