10055.?Aaultei'ation and misbranrting of coal-tar color.    TJ. S.     *     *     *     v.
2 One-Pound Cans     *     *     *     of Coal-Tar Color.    Default decree of?
condemnation,   forfeiture,   and    destruction.     (F.    &   D.    No.    14855.
I. S. Nos. 2901-t, 2902-t.    S. No. C-3054.)
On May 11, 1921, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
Texas, 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 condemna??
tion of 2 one-pound cans, more or less, of coal-tar color, at McAllen, Tex., alleg??
ing that the article had been shipped by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo.,?
on or about February 24, 1921, and transported from the State of Missouri?
into the State of Texas, and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " W. B. Wood?
Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., Complies with all requirements,    *    *    * "
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 article. Adulteration was alleged for the further?
reason that the said article contained an added poisonous or deleterious in??
gredient, arsenic, which might render it injurious to health.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement on the label of the?
can containing the said article, " Complies with all requirements, Warranted?
quality, color," was false and misleading and deceived and misled the pur??
chaser.
On December 9, 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. PCJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.