21028. Adulteration of   apples.     IT.   S.   v.   25   Bushels   of   Apples.     Default
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D. no.
29809.    Sample no. 28482-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of apples found to bear arsenic 
and lead in amounts which might have rendered them injurious to health.
On December 20, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 25 bushels of apples 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce, on September 30, 1932, by Edwin H. House, from Saugatuck, Mich., 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, in amounts 
which might have rendered it harmful to health.
On April 4, 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.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.