19323. Adulteration of cabbage.    U. S. v. 415 Hampers, et al., of Cabbage. 
Default   decrees   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. Nos. 27589, 27597.    I. S. Nos. 42617, 43673.    S. Nos. 5624, 5641.)
Arsenic having been found on the cabbage in the shipments herein described, 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the District of New Jersey.
On December 21 and December 22, 1931, the United States attorney filed in 
the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying 
seizure and condemnation of 870 hampers of cabbage at Jersey City, N. J., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Indian River Fruit Growers 
from Wabasso, Fla., in part on or about December 12, 1931, and in part on or 
about December 15, 1931, and had been transported in interstate commerce from 
the State of Florida into the State of New Jersey, and charging adulteration in 
^violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, to wit, arsenic, which 
might have rendered it injurious to health.
On December 30, 1931, no claim for the property having been interposed, 
judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered 
by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.