19643. Adulteration of cabbage.    U. S. v. 400 Hampers of Cabbage.    Decree
of  condemnation  and forfeiture.    Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 27651.    I. S. No. 43104.    S. No. 5699.)
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 Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
On January 9, 1932, 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 400 hampers of cabbage, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Manatee County Growers Association, Ruskin, Fla., on or about January 2, 
1932, and had been transported from the State of Florida into the State of 
Pennsylvania, 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 which might have rendered it 
harmful to health, namely, arsenic.
On January 11, 1932, the Manatee County Growers Association, Ruskin, Fla., 
having appeared as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and 
forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
released to the said claimant to be reconditioned under the supervision of this 
department, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond.in the sum of 
$500, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of 
contrary to the laws of the United States or any State, Territory, District, or 
insular possession.
ABTHTJR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.