19784. Adulteration of apples.    U. S. v. 756 Boxes of Apples.    Product re¬
leased under bond for reconditioning.     (886-A.    F. & D. No. 28349.)
Arsenic in an amount which might have rendered the article injurious to 
health was found on apples taken from the interstate shipment involved in 
this action.
On April 30, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and. condemnation of 756 boxes of apples, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about April 23, 1932, by F. W. Shields 
from Shannon, Wash., to Los Angeles, Calif., and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " S. 
Optimus Fruit Ranch J. E. Shannon & Sons Proprietor * * * Yakima, 
Wash."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained arsenic, an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On May 4, 1932, the Frank W. Shields Co., Yakima, Wash., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having filed a release bond in the sum 
of $1,000, a decree was entered ordering that the product be delivered to the 
claimant for reconditioning under the supervision of this department. On May 
11, 1932, the product having been reconditioned by removal of the arsenic, 
final decree was entered ordering that the release be made permanent, that the 
bond be exonerated, and that claimant pay costs of the proceedings.
HENEY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.