19421. Adulteration of dried apples. U. S. v. 2,000 Pounds of Dried Apples. 
Product- released under bond to be salvaged. ITnflt portion 
destroyed.    (F. & D. No. 27645.    I. S. No. 41716.    S. No. 5666.)
Examination of samples of dried apples from the shipment herein described 
having shown the product to be in part insect-infested, decayed; and dirty, the 
Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney for 
the Eastern District of Missouri.
On January 7, 1932, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 2,000 pounds of dried apples at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the 
article had been shipped on or about October 29, 1931, by G. B. Shafer, Prairie 
Grove, Ark., and had been transported in interstate commerce from the State 
of Arkansas into the State of Missouri, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance.
On February 1, 1932, J. W. Teasdale & Co., St. Louis, Mo., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel, and the court having found that a portion 
of the product was fit for human consumption and could be separated from the 
unfit portion, a decree was entered ordering that the product be released to 
the said claimant, upon the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned 
in part that it should not be sold or disposed of contrary to the provisions of 
the Federal food and drugs act, or all other laws, and that the unfit portion be 
destroyed. It was further ordered that claimant pay the costs of the 
proceedings.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.