20507. Adulteration of cauliflower.    TI.  S. v. S50 Crates of  Cauliflower.     De¬
fault decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction of 171 
crates; 79 crates of the product released. (F. & D. no. 29260. 
Sample no. 7615-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of cauliflower, a 
portion of which bore 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 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 250 crates of cauliflower, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Jacksonville, Fla., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 6, 1932, by Celery Vale 
Farms, from Denver, Colo., to Jacksonville, 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 or deleterious ingredient, arsenic, which might have 
rendered the article injurious to health.
The consignor, the Celery Vale Farms, Denver, Colo., and the consignee, the 
Winn & Lovett Grocery Co., Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., entered an appearance and 
filed a claim for 79 crates of the product representing that the cauliflower in 
this lot had not been sprayed with arsenic, and consented to the destruction of 
the remainder. Examination of the said 79 crates having shown that they 
contained no arsenic, on October 26, 1932, judgment was entered ordering that 
they be released and that the remainder be condemned and destroyed.
B. G. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.