20473. Adulteration of  cauliflower.     U.   S.   v.   18   Crates,   et   al.,   of   Cauli¬
flower.     Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.    (F. & D. nos. 29202, 29203.    Sample no. 7611-A.)
These actions involved an interstate shipment of cauliflower which was 
found to bear arsenic in an amount which might have rendered the article 
injurious to health.
On October 14, 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 libels praying seizure 
and condemnation of 27 crates of cauliflower, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Miami, Fla., alleging that the article had been Shipped by 
the Z. J. Fort Produce Co., from Denver, Colo., to Miami, Fla., on or about 
September 29, 1932, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, arsenic, which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On November 1, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ments of condemnation and forfeiture were 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.