20482. Adulteration of currants.    IT.  S. v. 20 Crates  of Currants.    Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. no.
28616.    Sample no. 5210-A.)
Arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered the article injurious to 
health were found on currants taken from the shipment involved in this case.
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 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 20 crates of currants at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce by Mrs. Alice Hitchcock, on 
July 13, 1932, from Ludington, 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 contained 
added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, in amounts which 
might have rendered the article injurious to health.
On November 16, 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.