14822. Adulteration of apples.     17.   S.  v.   One  Carload   of Apples.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 21333.    I. S. No. 12610-x.    S. No. C-3038.)
On October 16, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
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 one carload of apples, at Lexington, Nebr., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Bancroft Realty Co., from Clifton, Colo., on or about October 
10, 1926, and transported from the State of Colorado into the State of Nebraska, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in violation of 
paragraph 5 of section 7 of the said act, in that it contained an added poisonous 
ingredient, to wit, arsenic trioxide. which might have rendered it injurious to 
health.
On or about November 17, 1926, John Shada, Lexington, Nebr., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree of condemnation and forfeiture, judgment was entered, finding 
the product adulterated, and it was ordered by the court that the said product 
be released to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned that it not be sold or 
otherwise disposed of until inspected by a representative of this department. 
The said decree provided further that the claimant cause the apples to be 
Avashed or Aviped, or subjected to any process which AA-OUUI satisfactorily re- 
move therefrom the added deleterious ingredient.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.