20434. Adulteration of   cauliflower.    U.   S.   v.   16   Crates   of   Cauliflower.
Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. no. 29214.    Sample nos. 20372-A, 20373-A, 20374-A.)
This action involved an interstate shipment of cauliflower that was found 
to bear arsenic in an amount which might have rendered it injurious to health.
On October 21, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel pray- 
ing seizure and condemnation of 16 crates of cauliflower, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had 
been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 21, 1932, by Dewey D. 
Leavitt, from Riverhead, Long Island, N.Y., to Philadelphia, Pa., 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.
On November 18, 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.
R. G. TTTGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.