19448. Adulteration of cabbage.    U. S. v. 452 Hampers of Cabbagre.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
27626.    I. S. No. 39047.    S. No. 5669.)
Arsenic having been found on samples of cabbage taken from the shipment 
herein described, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
On December 31, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel, which was amended 
on January 15, 1932, praying seizure and condemnation of 452 hampers of 
cabbage, remaining in the original and unbroken packages at Boston, Mass., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Manatee County Growers' 
Association from Bradenton, Fla., on or about December 26, 1931, and had 
been transported in interstate commerce from the State of Florida into the 
State of Massachusetts, 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 injurious to health.
On January 7, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment 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.