19782. Adulteration of cabbage.    TI. S. v. 1 Carload of Cabbage.    Product
ordered released under bond to be reconditioned, and unfit por- 
tion destroyed.     (6544-A.    F. & D. No. 28343.)
Excessive arsenical spray residue was found on cabbage taken from the in- 
terstate shipment involved in this action.
On May 6, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Mis- 
souri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of one carload of cabbage at St. Louis, Mo., alleging 
that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about April 30, 
1932, by Breaux Bridge Farm Produce Co., from Breaux Bridge, La., to St 
Louis, Mo., 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 a poisonous substance, to wit, arsenic, which might have rendered the 
article injurious to health.
On May 10, 1932, Cicardi Bros. Fruit & Produce Co., St. Louis, Mo., claimant, 
filed a petition for the delivery of the property and tendered a bond in the 
sum of $1,000, conditioned that the product should not be sold or disposed of 
in violation of the Federal food and drugs act, and all other laws. The court 
having approved the bond, ordered that the cabbage be delivered to the said 
claimant to be brought into compliance with the laws by trimming each head 
to eliminate all leaves containing arsenical spray residue, that all portions 
found to be unfit for human consumption be destroyed, and that the fit portion 
be released.  The decree further provided for payment of costs by the claimant
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.