14650. Adulteration of pears.    U. S. v. 532 Boxes of Pears.    Default order
of destruction entered.    (F. & D. No. 21236.    S. No. C-5206.)
On August 12, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 532 boxes of pears, at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Suncrest Orchards, from Voorhies, Oreg., 
July 22, 1926, and transported from the State of Oregon into the State of 
Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that it contained an excessive amount of a poisonous substance, to wit, 
arsenic, which might have rendered it injurious to health.
On August 27, 1926, it having appeared to the court that the product was 
of a perishable character, was rapidly deteriorating in quality and was in a 
condition to constitute a nuisance, upon petition of the United States attorney 
the court ordered the said product destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.