20514. Adulteration of   cauliflower.    TI.   S.   v.   18   Crates   of   Cauliflower.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F.
& D. no. 29265.    Sample no. 18428-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of cauliflower 
that was found to bear arsenic and lead in amounts which might have rendered 
it injurious to health.
On or about October 21, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Texas, 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 18 crates of cauliflower, remaining in the 
original packages at Corpus Christi, Tex., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 4, 1932, by Z. J. Fort 
Produce Co.. from Denver, Colo., to Corpus Christi, Tex., and charging adultera- 
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, which 
might have rendered the article injurious to health.
On December 2,1932, 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. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.