20518. Adulteration of   cauliflower.    V.   S.   v.   392   Crates   of   Cauliflower.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F.
& D. no. 29137.    Sample no. 20439-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of cauliflower that # 
was found to bear arsenic in an amount which might Jrnve rendered the article { 
injurious to health.
On October fl, 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 praying 
seizure and condemnation of 392 crates of cauliflower, remaining in the original 
and unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 14, 1932, by William 
Kroemer, from Calverton, 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, arsenic, which might have 
rendered it harmful to health.   .
On November 18, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment 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. TTJGWEIX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.