21326. Adulteration of celery.    U.  S. v. Elmer Hartner  (Hartner Produce
Co.). Plea of guilty. Flue, S25. (F. & D. no. 30202. Sample no. 
18476-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of celery that was found 
to bear arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered it injurious to 
health.
On June 5, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against Elmer Hartner, trading as the Hartner Produce 
Co., Denver, Colo., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the
Food and Drugs Act, on or aboutJuly 30, 1932,,from the State of Colorado 
into the State of Texas, of a quantity of celery that was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it contained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, 
in amounts that might have rendered it injurious to health.
On July 7, 1933, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.