20087. Adulteration of   currants.     U.S   v.   8   Crates   of  Currants.     Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. No.
28615.    Sample No. 4221-A'.)
This action involved the shipment of a quantity of currants, samples of 
which were found to bear arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered 
the article injurious to health.
On July 16, 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 eight crates of currants at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about July 13, 1932, 
by Joehem Bros., from Bridgman, Mich., to Chicago, Ill. and charging adultera- 
tion 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, arsenic and lead, in amounts 
that might have rendered the article injurious to health.
On September 26, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment 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.