20506. Adulteration of apples.    TT. S. v. 710 Boxes of Apples.    Default de¬
cree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 29637.    Sample 
no. 18037-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of apples that bore 
arsenate of lead in an amount which might have rendered them injurious to 
health.
On November 16, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Mon- 
tana, 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 710 boxes of apples at Billings, Mont., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 27, 1932, by the 
Northwestern Fruit Exchange, from Stratford, Wash., to Billings, Mont., and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was 
labeled in part: " Delicious Wash. * * * Grown by Stratford Orchards Co. 
Stratford, Wash."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous ingredient, arsenate of lead, in an amount which 
might have rendered the article injurious to health.
On January 10, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. G. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.