20334. Adulteration of cauliflower.    U.S. v. 385 Crates of Cauliflower.    De¬
fault decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D.
no. 29134.    Sample no. 14222-A.)
This action involved a shipment of cauliflower which was found to bear 
arsenic in an amount that might have rendered the article injurious to health.
On October 14, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 385 crates of cauliflower, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about October 11, 1932, by J. C. Stevens, from Riverhead, 
N.Y., to Baltimore, Md., 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 and deleterious ingredient, arsenic, which might 
have rendered the article injurious to health.
On October 18, 1932, no claim having been entered 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.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.