19622. Adulteration of celery?   U. S. v. 352 Crates of Celery.    Decree order¬
ing;   product   released   under   bond.     (F.   &   D.   No.   27718.    I.   S.   No. 
50328.    S. No. 5809.)
Arsenic having been found on celery taken from the shipment involved in 
this action, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United 
States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.
On February 4, 1932, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 352 crates of the said celery, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Manatee County Growers Association of Bradenton, Fla., from Vanderipe, Fla., 
on or about January 28, 1932, and had been transported from the State of 
Florida into the State of Missouri, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Mana T Brand 
Packed and shipped by Manatee County Growers Association, Bradenton, 
Florida."
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 February 20, 1932, the Manatee County Growers Association, having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations 
of the libel, and the court having found that a portion of the article was fit 
for human consumption and could be separated from the unfit portion, judg- 
ment was entered ordering that the product be released to the claimant upon 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned that it should not 
be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of the Federal food 
and drugs act, or other existing laws, and it was further ordered that the 
unfit portion be destroyed and that claimant pay costs of the proceedings.
ARTHTTR M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture.