26881. Adulteration of   cabbage.     IT.   S.   v.   285   Baskets   of   Cabbage.     Default
decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 38744. Sample 
no. 23206-C.)
This product was contaminated with arsenic.
On November 18,1936, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 285 baskets of cabbage at Baltimore, 
Md., alleging that it had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about Novem- 
ber 13, 1936, by the Charleston Produce Distributors, from Yonges Island, S. C, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. It was 
labeled in part: "Towles Fancy Vegetables Grown & Packed by F. W. Towles 
Co. Inc., Martins Point, S. C."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained an added poison- 
ous or deleterious ingredient, arsenic.
On December 30, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.