20860. Adulteration of   apples.    U.   S.   v.   152   Boxes   of   Apples.    Default
decree of destruction.     (F.  & D. no. 30016.    Sample no.  33171-A.)
This action involved an interstate shipment of apples bearing arsenate of lead 
in an amount that might have rendered them injurious to health.
On February 23, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Alabama, 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 152 boxes of apples at Mobile, Ala., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about January 30, 1933, by H. S. 
Denison & Co., from Cashmere, Wash., to Mobile, Ala., and charging adultera- 
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, arsenate of lead, which 
might have rendered it injurious to health.
On March 31, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.