19312. Adulteration of cabbage.    U.  S. v. 428 Hampers  of Cabbage.     Con¬
sent decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &D.
No. 27405.    I. S. No. 37596.    S. No. 5608.)
Arsenic having been found on the cabbage in the shipment herein described, 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the District of Maryland.
On December 18, 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 428 hampers of cabbage, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
South Carolina Produce Association, from Legare, S. C, on or about December 
12, 1931, and had been transported from the State of South Carolina into the 
State of Maryland, 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 or deleterious ingredient, to wit, arsenic, which 
might have rendered it harmful to health.
On December 22, 1931, by consent of the owner, judgment of condemnation 
and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.