21139. Adulteration of apples.   V.  S.  v. Yakima Fruit  &  Cold Storage  Co.
Plea of guilty.   Fine, $75.     (F. & D. no. 29401.    I. S. nos. 22490, 46508, 
46509.)
This case was based on the interstate shipment and the delivery for shipment 
to a foreign country, of quantities of apples found to bear arsenic and lead 
in amounts which might have rendered them injurious to health.
On January 3, 1933, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Yakima Fruit Cold Storage Co., 
a corporation, Yakima, Wash., alleging shipment by said defendant, on or 
about February 1 and February 5, 1932, from the State of Washington into the 
State of California, also the delivery for shipment to Germany, on or about 
March 4, 1932, of quantities of apples that were adulterated in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The product delivered for shipment to a foreign country 
was labeled in part: (Box) " Persian Brand Northwest Apples C. C. Smith Fruit 
Co. Yakima and Wenatchee"; (stenciled on box) "Packed by Yakima Fruit 
& Cold Storage Co. Y_akima, Wash."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it contained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic, or arsenic 
and lead, in amounts which might have rendered it injurious to health.
On May 4, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $75.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.