19640. Adulteration of   cabbage.    U.   S.   v.   405   Half   Crates   of   Cabbage.
Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   desti uetlon.
(F. & D. No. 27399.    I. S. No. 30625.    S. No. 5604.)
Arsenic and lead 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 Southern District of New York.
On or about December 21, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 405 half crates of cabbage, in possession of the 
carrier at Harlem River yards, New York, N. Y. It was alleged in the libel 
that the article had been shipped to Providence, R. I., on or about December 8, 
1931, by the South Carolina Produce Association, from Charleston, S. C, that 
it had been reshipped to New York, N. Y., and that it was adulterated in 
violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
contained added poisonous or deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, which 
might have rendered it injurious to health.
On January 9, 1932, 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.
ABTHTIB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.