21297.  Adulteration of   dried   apple  pomace.    TJ.   S.   v.   167  Bass   of  Dried 
Apple   Pomace.     Default   decree   of   forfeiture   and   destruction.
(F. & D. no. 30690.    Sample no. 39723-A.)
This case involved a shipment of dried apple pomace that was found to con- 
tain arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered it injurious to health.
On July 3, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 167 bags of dried apple pomace 
at Natick, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about May 26, 1933, by the National Fruit Product Co., from 
Waynesboro, Va., 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 contained 
added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, which might have 
rendered it harmful to health.
On July 20, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
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.