20763. Adulteration of apples.    V. S. v. 24,000 Pounds of Apples.    Default
decree of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 29961.    Sample no. 35103-A.) <
This case involved an interstate shipment of apples that bore arsenic and 
lead in amounts that might have rendered them injurious to health.
On February 25, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Ohio, 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 24,000 pounds of apples at Cincinnati, Ohio, consigned by R. A. Watson, 
receiver, from Neoga, I11.J February 13, 1933, alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce from Neoga, Ill., to Cincinnati, Ohio, 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 con- 
tained arsenic and lead, added poisonous or deleterious ingredients.
On February 28, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, and 
the court having found that the product was rapidly deteriorating and was 
unfit for human consumption, judgment was entered ordering that it be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TTJGWEIX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.