20424. Adulteration of apples.    U. S. v. 25 Bushels, et al., of Apples.    Con¬
sent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond. (F. & D. nos. 29088, 29089, 29090, 29142. Samples nos. 
24836-A, 24837-A, 24853-A, 24859-A, 24860-A, 24873-A.)
These actions involved the interstate shipment of quantities of apples that 
were found to bear arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered the 
article injurious to health.
On October 1, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying seizure 
and condemnation of 291 bushels of apples at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce in various consignments by 
Otto Kelder, from South Haven, Mich., to Chicago, Ill., between the dates of 
September 23 and September 28, 1932, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, to wit, arsenic and lead, in 
amounts which might have rendered the article injurious to health.
C. H. Weaver & Co., Chicago, Ill., appeared and filed a claim and answer 
admitting the allegations of the libels and consenting to the entry of a decree. 
On October 6, 1932, the cases having been consolidated into one cause of action, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered. The court having found 
that the product might be washed so that it could be sold without violation of 
the law, ordered that it might be released to the claimant to be washed to 
remove the deleterious substances, upon payment of costs and the execution 
of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned that the apples should not be disposed 
of in violation of the Federal Food and Drugs Act and all other laws.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.