17977. Adulteration of apples.    IT. S. v. 810 Boxes, et al., of Apples.    Product
released under bond to be reconditioned.     (F. & D. Nos. 25335, 25336. 
I. S. Nos. 11702, 11703.    S. No. 3604.)
Arsenic- trioxide having been found on samples of apples taken from the here- 
in-described shipments, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Southern District of California.
On November 19, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 1,620 boxes of apples, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Los Angeles, Calif., consigned by the Stratton Fruit Exchange (Inc.), 
Stratton Station, Utah, (billed at Provo, Utah) alleging that the article had 
been shipped in interstate commerce on or about November 4, 1930, from Strat- 
ton, Utah, to Los Angeles, Calif., and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous ingredients, viz, arsenic and lead, which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On January 9, 1931, the Stratton Fruit Exchange (Inc.), Provo, Utah, hav- 
ing appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the material 
allegations of the libels, and the cases having been consolidated into one cause 
of action, a decree was entered ordering that the product be released to the 
said claimant to be reconditioned under the supervision of this department, 
? under a cost bond in the sum of $250, and release bond in the sum of $400. 
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ABTHUB, M. HTDB, Secretary of Agriculture,
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