9697. Adulteration of coloring matter.     I.  S.     *     *      *     v. 2 Cans     *      *      *
of   Coloring  Matter.     Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture, 
and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 12895.    I. S. No. 253-t.    S. No. C-2063.)
On July 29, 1920, 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 said district a libel for the seizure and condem- 
nation of 2 cans, more or less, of coloring matter, remaining unsold at Mid- 
dletown, Ohio, consigned by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., on or 
about July 3, 1920, alleging that the article had been shipped from St. Louis 
Mo., and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Ohio, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that sodium 
chlorid and sodium sulphate had been mixed and packed with, and substituted 
wholly or in part for, the said article, and for the further reason that it con- 
tained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient [arsenic], which might 
render it injurious to health.
On February 19, 1921, 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.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.