10778. Adulteration of cabbage.    U. S. v. 26,000 Pounds of Cabbage.    De- 
cree of destruction.     (5688-A.    F. & D. No. 28335.)
Arsenic was found on cabbage taken from the interstate shipment involved in 
this action.
On May 10, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Ohio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 26,000 pounds of cabbage at Cincinnati, Ohio, consigned, 
by M. E. Girard, on May 8, 1932, alleging that the article had been transported 
in interstate commerce from Lafayette, La., to Cincinnati, Ohio, 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 
arsenic, an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient which might have rendered 
the article injurious to health.
In view of the perishable nature of the goods, and no claim having been 
entered for the property, the consignee recommended its immediate destruction. 
On May 20,1932, a decree was entered, nunc pro tunc as of May 10,1932, order- 
ing that it be destroyed by the marshal.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.