19407. Adulteration of celery.    U. S. v. 20 Crates of Celery.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 26707. 
I. S. No. 30739.    S. No. 4852.)
Arsenic having been found on samples of celery taken from the shipment 
herein described, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United 
States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
On June 24, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of 20 crates of celery, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about June 5, 
1931, by the Sanford-Oviedo Truck Growers Association (Sanford-Oviedo Truck 
Growers (Inc.)) from Avon Park, Fla., and had been transported from the 
State of Florida into the State of Pennsylvania, 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 miglit 
have rendered it injurious to health.
On July 14, 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.
ABTHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.