20421. Adulteration of   cauliflower.    TI.   S.   v.   132   Crates   of   Cauliflower.
Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. no. 29271.    Sample no. 20804-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of cauliflower, 
samples of which were found to contain arsenic in an amount which might have 
rendered the article injurious to health.
On October 21, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey, 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 132 crates of cauliflower, remaining in the original and 
unbroken packages at Newark, N.J., alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or about October 20, 1932, by M. Sternick, Inc., from Calverton, Long Island. 
N.Y., to Newark, N.J., 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 con- 
tained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, arsenic, which might have 
rendered the article injurious to health.
On November 22, 1932, 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.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.