22522. Adulteration of  apple  butter.    U.  S.  v.  65  Cases  of Apple  Butter.
Default    decree    of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and    destruction.
(F. & D. no. 32535.    Sample no. 60828-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of apple butter that contained 
arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered it injurious to health.
On or about April 12, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of 
Oregon, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 55 cases, each con- 
taining six cans of apple butter, at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or about March 1, 1934, by the 
Pacific Northwest Canning Co., and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act The article was labeled in part: (Can) " Paul's Skookum 
Apple Butter Distributories, Pacific Northwest Canning Co."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, which 
might have rendered it injurious to health.
On May 8, 1934, 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. Li. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.