14107.  Adulteration   of  apples.    U.   S.   v.  714  Boxes   of  Apples.    Decree   of 
condemnation    and.    forfeiture.     Product    released    under    bond.
(F. & D. No. 2093-5.     S. No. E-5665.)
On or about March 18, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying 
the seizure and condemnation of 714 boxes of apples, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Winchester, Va., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the American Fruit Growers, Inc., from Wenatchee, Wash., and 
transported from the State of Washington into the State of Virginia, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: "Winesap Fancy Blue Goose."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
contained an added poisonous ingredient, to wit, arsenic, which rendered the 
said article injurious to health.
On March 31, 1926, the C. L. Robinson Ice & Cold Storage Corp., Winchester, 
Va., having appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the 
allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, 
and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said j
claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a i
bond in the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned 
in part that it not be sold, except to a purchaser who would contract to peel ?<
the apples before using, nor otherwise disposed of until the excess of arsenic :
had been removed.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.