19119. Adulteration of cabbage.    V. S. v. 7 Hampers of Cabbage.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
27355.    I. S. No. 43651.    S. No. 5561.)
Arsenic having been found on samples of cabbage taken from the shipment 
herein described, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United 
States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
On December 10, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of seven hampers of cabbage, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by Sam 
Brown, Martin's Point, S. C, from Charleston, S. C, on or about December 5, 
1931, and had been transported from the State of South Carolina into the State 
of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it contained 
an added poisonous ingredient, to wit, arsenic, which might have rendered it 
injurious to health.
On December 30, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
AETHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.