19303. Adulteration of cabbagre.    U.  S. v. 450 Crates of Cabbagre.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
27403.    I. S. No. 39042.    S. No. 5605.)
Arsenic having been found on the cabbage in the shipment herein described, 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the District of Massachusetts.
On December 18, 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 450 crates of cabbage, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped by Chase & Co., from 
Sanford, Fla., on or about December 14, 1931, and had been transported from 
the State of Florida into the State of Massachusetts, 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 or deleterious ingredient, to wit, arsenic, which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On December 21, 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.
ARTHUR M. HTDB, Secretary of Agriculture.