19686. Adulteration of  apples.    V.  S.  -v.  660  Baskets   of  Apples.    Product 
adjudged adulterated and ordered released under bond.     (F. & D.
No. 27689.    I. S. No. 31921.    S. No. 5776.)
Arsenic and lead having been found on samples of apples taken from the 
interstate shipment involved in this action, the Secretary of Agriculture re- 
ported the matter to the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska.
On February 1, 1932, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 660 baskets of apples at Omaha, Nebr., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or about January 14, 1932, 
by D. T. Sleep, from Ontario, Oreg., to Omaha, Nebr., and charging adulteration 
in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: 
" Winesap Grown Packed and Shipped by D. T. Sleep, Ontario, Oregon."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous or deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, which 
might have rendered it injurious to health.
N. H. Nelson & Co. entered an appearance and claim for the property, 
admitted the allegations of the libel and consented that judgment might be 
entered for the condemnation and forfeiture of the product. On February 2, 
1932, a decree was entered finding the product adulterated and ordering that 
it be released to the claimant upon payment of costs and the execution Ox 
a bond in the sum of $2,000, conditioned that it should not be sold or otherwise 
disposed of contrary to the Federal food and drugs act, and all other laws. 
It was further ordered by the court that the claimant cause the apples to be 
washed or wiped, or reconditioned in any manner which would remove the 
poisonous or deleterious ingredients.
ABTUUK M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.
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