20430. Adulteration of   cauliflower.   U.   S.   v.   150   Crates   of   Cauliflower.
Consent   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. no. 29238.    Sample no. 16733-A.)
This action involved an interstate shipment of cauliflower that was found to 
bear arsenic in an amount which might have rendered the article injurious to 
health.
On October 17, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Florida, 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 150 crates of cauliflower at Tampa, Fla., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 8, 1932, 
by the Western Vegetable Distributors, from Denver, Colo, to Tampa, Fla., 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, to wit, arsenic, which 
might have rendered such product injurious to health.
On October 19, 1932, the consignor and the consignee having agreed that the 
libel was well taken and that they would not contest the forfeiture of the 
goods, judgment of condemnation 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.