19536. Adulteration of cabbage.    U.  S. v. 121  Crates of Cabbage.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
27357. I. S. No. 42952.    S. No. 5566.)
Arsenic having been found on cabbage 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 December 11, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 121 crates of cabbage, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped on or 
about December 4, 1931, by the South Carolina Produce Association, from 
Geraty, S. C, and had been transported from the State of South Carolina 
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 
might render the article injurious to health.
On January 4, 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.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.