14503. Adulteration of coal-tar color. U. S. v. 1 Five-Pound Can of Coal- 
Tar   Color.    Default   decree   of  destruction   entered.     (F.   & D.   No.
14694.    I. S. No. 14879-t.    S. No. C-2900.)
On April 3, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Ten- 
nessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 1 five-pound can of coal-tar color, remaining in the original can at 
Chattanooga, Tenn., consigned by the W. B. Wood Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., 
alleging that the article had been shipped from St. Louis, Mo., on or about 
March 4, 1921, and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of 
Tennessee, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: "W. B. Wood Mfg. Co. St. Louis, Mo. War- 
ranted Complies with all requirements, Number 810, Contents Yellow."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that sodium 
chloride and sodium sulphate had been mixed and packed therewith and sub- 
stituted in part, if not in whole, for the said article. Adulteration was alleged 
for the further reason that the article contained an added poisonous and dele- 
terious ingredient,, to wit, arsenic, which might have rendered it injurious to 
health. 
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On January 6, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered, ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.