22890. Adulteration of cauliflower.   U.  S. v. Elmer G. Hartner and  Calvin
W. Kumz (Western Vegetable Distributors).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, 
?100.     (F. & D. no. 32171.    Sample nos. 42649-A, 42746-A.)
This case was based on interstate shipments of cauliflower which was found 
to bear arsenic in an amount that might have rendered it injurious to health.
On July 9, 1934, 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 G. Hartner and Calvin W. Kunz, copartners, 
trading as the Western Vegetable Distributors, Denver, Colo., alleging shipment 
by said defendants on or about July 20, 1933, from the State of Colorado into 
the State of Ohio, and on or about July 26, 1933, from the State of Colorado 
into the State of Oklahoma, of quantities of cauliflower which was adulterated, 
A portion of the article was labeled in part: " Rose Del Rancho, Western 
Vegetable Distributors   *    *   *   Denver Colo."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained an added 
poisonous and deleterious ingredient, arsenic, which might have rendered it 
injurious to health.
On August 10, 1934, a plea of guilty was entered and the court imposed a 
fine of $100.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.