12100. Adulteration  of  coal-tar  color.     IT.  S.  v.  1  Can  of  Coal-Tar   Color.
Default decree adjudging product subject to condemnation and 
forfeiture, and ordering- its destruction. (P. & D. No. 14700. I. S. 
No. 3235-t.    S. No. C-2951.)
On April 8, 1921, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 1 can of coal-tar color, at Decatur, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., from St. Louis, Mo., 
on or about March 18, 1921, and transported from the State of Missouri into 
the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "1 Lb. Net * * * W. B. 
Wood Mfg. Co.    *    *    *    St. Louis, Mo.    *    *    *    Contents Brown."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that sodium 
chloride and sodium sulphate had been mixed and packed with and substituted 
wholly or in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
reason that the article contained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, 
arsenic, which might render it injurious to health.
On February 19, 1924, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of the court was entered finding the product to be subject to condemnation 
and forfeiture, and it was ordered by the court that it be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.