18824. Adulteration of celery. XJ. S. v. 345 Crates of Celery. Default de- 
cree  of condemnation, forfeiture,  and   destruction.     (F.  & D.  No.
26515.    I. S. No. 30441.    8. No. 4830.)
Samples of celery from the shipment herein described having been found to 
bear arsenical spray residue, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
On June 22, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 345 crates of celery, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at New York, N.-Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Sanford 
Oviedo Truck Growers Association, from Avon Park, Fla., on or about June 
10, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Florida into the State of 
"New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous ingredient, arsenic, which might have rendered it 
injurious to health, an analysis of a sample having shown that it bore excessive 
amounts of arsenical spray residue, to wit. 23 parts per million on the leaves 
and 5.5 parts per million on the petioles, the arsenic being calculated as arsenic 
trioxide.
On July 9, 1931, 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.
ARTHTTE M. HTDB, Secretary of Agriculture.