15613.?Adulteration   of   dried   apple   chops.    U.   S.   v.   644   Sacks   of   Dried
Apple Chops. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.?
Produet released under bond. (F. & D. No. 22367. I. S. No. 19802-x.?
S. No. 411.)
On January 9, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
Ohio, 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 con??
demnation of 644 sacks of dried apple chops, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped by the?
Denney Fruit Co., from Payette, Idaho, November 30, 1927, and had been trans??
ported from the State of Idaho into the State of Ohio, and charging adultera??
tion in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con??
tained an added poisonous substance which might have rendered it injurious?
to health.
On January 19, 1928, Edward T. Klum & Son having appeared for Rosenberg?
Bros. & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, claimant, and having admitted the allegations?
of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation?
and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product?
be released to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and?
the execution of a bond in the sum of $5,000, conditioned in part that it be?
salvaged under the supervision of this department.
W. M. JAKDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.