19647. Adulteration of cabbage.    U. S. v. 423 Hampers, et al., of Cabbage.
Default   decrees   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. Nos. 27377, 27384.    I. S. Nos. 43656, 43659.    S. Nos. 5576, 5586.)
Arsenic having been found on samples of cabbage taken from the shipments 
herein described, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the District of New Jersey.
On December 14 and December 15, 1931, the United States attorney filed 
in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels 
praying seizure and condemnation of 858 hampers of cabbage, alleging that 
the article had been shipped on or about December 8 and December 9, 1931, 
by C. B. Gibson, from Normans (Meggett), S. C, consigned to New York, N. Y., 
that it remained unsold in possession of the carrier at Jersey City, N. J., 
and that it was adulterated in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, arsenic, which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On January 19, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
AETH"DB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.