20692.  Adulteration of celery.   V. S. v. 340 Crates of Celery.    Consent decree 
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.   Product   released  under   bond.
(F. & D. no. 29714.    Sample no. 26548-A.)
This case involved a quantity of celery that was found to bear arsenic in an 
amount which might have rendered it injurious to health.
On January 4, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme 
Court of the district aforesaid, holding a District Court, a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 340 crates of celery, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Washington, D. C, alleging that the article had been shipped by 
H. P. Garin Co., Los Angeles, Calif., on or about December 19, 1932, and had 
been transported from the State of California into the District of Columbia, 
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 June 6, 1933, the H. P. Garin Co., Los Angeles, Calif., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was or- 
dered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $850, conditioned that 
it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of the 
Federal Food and Drugs Act. The portion of the article that was found unfit 
for human consumption was segregated and destroyed.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.