9948. Adulteration of coal-tar color.     V. S.     *     *      *     v. 1 Can of Coal-Tar
[Color],    .Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. No. 14615.    I. S. No. 3226-t.    S. No. B-3171.)
On March 11, 1921, the United States attorney for the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania, 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 condemnation of 1 can of coal-tar [color], remaining unsold in the orig- 
inal unbroken package at Mount Carmel, Pa., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., on or about February 
23, 1921, and transported from
' the State of Missouri into the State of Penn- 
sylvania, 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 and deleterious ingredient, to wit. arsenic, which 
might render the said article injurious to health.
On June 25, 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.