21114. Adulteration of evaporated apples.    IT. S. v. 52 Boxes of Evaporated
Apples.   Default decree of destruction entered.    (F. & D. no. 29688. 
Sample no. 6516-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of evaporated apples that were 
in part insect-infested, dirty, and decomposed.
On December 29, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 52 boxes of 
evaporated apples at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about November 17, 1932, by J. R. 
Bever Co., from Gentry, Ark., and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Choice Evaporated 
Apples Packed by the J. R. Bever Co. Gentry, Arkansas."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On June 14, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered finding the product adulterated and ordering that it be destroyed 
by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.