20068. Adulteration of apples     U.S. v. 22 Boxes of Apples.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No. 28459. 
Sample No. 4919-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of apples which 
were found to bear arsenic and lead in an amount which might have rendered 
the article injurious to health.
On June 10, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 22 boxes of apples at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on May 27, 1932, by Pren- 
tice Packing & Cold Storage Co., from Yakima, Wash., to Chicago, Ill., 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- 
tained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, to wit, arsenic and lead, 
in amounts that might have rendered the article injurious to health.
On July 14, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,