20608. Adulteration of apples.    U.  S. v. 814 Boxes  of Apples.     Claim and
answer   filed.    Product   released  under  bond.     (F.   &  D.   no.   29894. 
Sample no. 18046-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of apples that were found to bear 
arsenic in an amount which might have rendered them injurious to health.
On November 29, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Montana, 
acting upon a report by the State Board of Health of Montana, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 814 boxes of apples at Butte, Mont., alleging 
that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about Novem- 
ber 3, 1932, by T. A. Jones, from Dayton, Wash., to Butte, Mont., and charging 
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled 
in part: (Boxes) " Grown by Harry F. Kennedy, Dayton, Wash."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous ingredient, arsenic, which might have rendered the 
article injurious to health.
On December 10. 1932, George. W. Gates and Edwin Winters, copartners, Butte, 
Mont., claimants, filed an answer admitting the allegations of the libel and 
praying release of the property. Judgment was entered ordering delivery of 
the product to claimants upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond 
in the sum of $500, conditioned that the apples should not be sold or disposed of 
contrary to the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act and all other laws.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.