12319. Adulteration of eolorina' matter.    V. S. v. 1 Can of Colorine (Color- 
'   ing?)   Matter.     Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 13071.    I.  S. No. 9359-r.    S. No.  C-2053.)
On July 27, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
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 condemna- 
tion of 1 can of colorine (coloring) matter, at Seward, Nebr., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co. from St. Louis, Mo., on
or about June 28, 1920, and transported from the State of Missouri into the 
State of Nebraska, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "'lb. 1 net W. B. Wood Mfg. Co. 
*   *    *    St. Louis, Mo   Purple."
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, and for the further reason that it con- 
tained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, to wit, arsenic, which 
might have rendered it injurious to health.
On April 17, 1924, 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.
HOWARD M. GOSE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.