21727. Adulteration of apples.     V.  S. v. 93  Boxes of  Apples.     Default  de¬
cree finding- product adulterated and ordering: that it be Trashed 
and delivered to a welfare organisation, (p. & D. no. 31648. Sample 
no. 51045-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of apples that were found to bear 
lead in an amount that might have rendered the article injurious to health.
On October 17, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Utah, act- 
ing upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court a 
libel praying seizure and condemnation of 93 boxes of Jonathan apples at Salt 
Lake City, Utah, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about October 8, 1933, by Lee Atkinson, from Buhl, Idaho, 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 an added poisonous or deleterious ingredient, lead, which might have 
rendered the article injurious to health.
On November 28, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment was entered finding the product adulterated and ordering that the apples 
be washed or cleaned to remove the deleterious substance and delivered to a 
welfare organization for distribution in charitable work.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.