9438. Adulteration of coal-tar yellow color.     U. S.     *      *     *     v. One Po"md
Can of Coal-Tar Yellow Color. Default decree of condemnation, 
forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 14643. I. S. No. 2334-t. 
S. No. C-2873.)
On March 23, 1921, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel, and subsequently an 
amendment to said libel, for the seizure and condemnation of one pound can 
of coal-tar yellow color, remaining unsold at Hawarden, Iowa, alleging that e 
article had been shipped by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co.-, St. Louis, Mo., on or 
about March 1, 1921, and transported from the State of Missouri into the 
State of Iowa, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act.    The article was labeled in part:  "1 Lb. Net Manufacturing Chemists
* *    *    Contents Yellow W. B. Wood Mfg. Co. St. Louis, Mo.    *    *    * " 
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel, as amended
in that it contained sulphates and salt and a non-permitted dye product, and 
for the further reason that it contained a poisonous and deleterious ingredient, 
to wit, arsenic, which might; render the said article injurious to health.
On May 26, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
condemnation and forfeiture-was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.