20449. Adulteration of   cauliflower.     U.   S.   -v.   120   Crates   of   Cauliflower.
Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. no. 29218.    Sample nos. 22375-A, 22378-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of cauliflower that was found to 
bear arsenic in an amount which might have rendered the article injurious 
to health.
On October 20, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
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 con- 
demnation of 120 crates of cauliflower at Baltimore, Md. It was alleged in the 
libel that the article had been shipped by I. M. Young & Co., from Calverton, 
N. Y., on or about October 17, 1932, that it had been transported from the State 
of New York into the State of Maryland, and that it was adulterated in vio- 
lation 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 10, 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.