20614. Adulteration of cauliflower.    V. S. v. 7 Crates, et al., of Cauliflower.
Consent   decrees   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. nos. 29268, 29639.    Sample nos. 18876-A, 18880-A.)
These actions involved the interstate shipment of two lots of cauliflower 
that bore poisonous or deleterious ingredients in amounts which might have 
rendered the article injurious to health, one lot having been found to bear 
arsenic, and the other arsenic and lead.
On or about October 20 and October 29, 1932, the United States attorney 
for the Northern District of Texas, acting upon reports by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for the district 
aforesaid libels praying seizure and condemnation of 7 crates and 2 crates of 
cauliflower, remaining in the original packages at Fort Worth, Tex., alleging 
that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 6 
and October 12, 1932, by the Hartner Produce Co., from Denver, Colo., to Fort 
Worth, Tex., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act. Twenty crates of cauliflower were seized under the 2 libels, 7 under the 
former and 13 under the latter.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous or deleterious ingredients which might have rendered 
the product injurious to health, namely, arsenic in one lot and arsenic and 
lead in the other.
On January 3, 1933, the Bergman Produce Co. Fort Worth, Tex., having 
appeared and consented to the destruction of the goods and no other claim 
having been interposed, judgments 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. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.