20448. Adulteration of   cauliflower.     U.   S.   v.   100   Crates   of   Cauliflower.
Default    decree    of    condemnation,   forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. no. 29217.    Sample no. 20479-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of cauliflower 
that was found to bear arsenic in an amount which might have rendered it 
injurious to health.
On October 21, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Con- 
necticut, 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 100 crates of cauliflower at New Haven, Conn. 
It was alleged in the libel that the article had been shipped by I. M. Young, 
from Riverhead, Long Island, N. Y., on or about October 18, 1932, that it had 
been transported from the State of New York into the State of Connecticut, 
and that it was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
contained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, arsenic, which might 
have rendered it injurious to health.
On November 7, 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. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.