20698. Adulteration of apples.    IT. S. v. 92 Boxes and 102 Boxes of Apples.
Product  ordered  released  nnder  bond.    (F.  & D.  no.  29838.     Sample 
nos. 31246-A, 31247-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of apples which bore arsenate of 
lead in an amount which might have rendered the article injurious to health.
On January 14, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Montana, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 194 boxes of 
apples at Great Falls, Mont., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, on or about December 29, 1932, by the Perham Fruit Co., 
from Grandview, Wash., to Great Falls, Mont., 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 contained 
an added poisonous ingredient, arsenate of lead, which rendered it injurious to 
health.
On January 21, 1933, Devine & Asselstine, Inc., Great Falls, Mont., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libel, judgment was entered ordering that the apples be released to the 
claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, 
conditioned that they should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to 
the provisions of the Federal Food and Drugs Act, and all other laws.
R. G. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.