20838. Adulteration of apples.    IT. S. v. 64 Boxes, et al., of Apples.    Default
decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.
No. 30011.    Sample nos. 24567-A, 24569-A).
This action involved an interstate shipment of apples that were found to bear 
lead, or arsenic and lead, in amounts that might have rendered them injurious 
to health.
On February 21,1933, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Wisconsin, 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 
80 boxes of apples at Milwaukee, Wis., alleging that the article had been ship- 
ped in interstate commerce, on or about January 13, 1933, by the International 
Fruit Distributors, from Yakima, Wash., to Milwaukee, Wis., 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 added poisonous or deleterious ingredients, namely, lead in a portion, 
and arsenic and lead in the remainder, which might have rendered it injurious 
to health.
On April 17, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 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.