20859. Adulteration of   apples.    U. ' S.   v.   28   Bushels   and   44   Bushels   of
Apples.    Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   de- 
struction.    (F. & D. no. 29565.    Sample no. 5057-A.)
This case involved a quantity of apples that were found to bear arsenic and 
lead in an amount that might have rendered them injurious to health.
On October 28, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Indiana, 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 
72 bushels of apples at Lafayette, Ind., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about October 23, 1932, by Starck & Mars, 
from Sodus, Mich., to Lafayette, Ind., 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, arsenic and lead, which 
might have rendered it harmful to health.
On March 6, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property and the 
court having found that the product was in a decaying condition, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the apples be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.