20188. Adulteration of  currants.     U.S.  v.  7  Crates  of  Currants.     Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. no.
28884.    Sample no. 5213-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of currants which 
were found to bear arsenic and lead in amounts which might have rendered 
the article injurious to health.
On July 18, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of seven crates of currants at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped July 13, 1932, by Joe Seymour, through Northern 
Fruit Co., from Ludington, Mich., 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, arsenic and lead, in amounts 
which 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. TWWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.