22573. Adulteration of apples.     IT.  S. v. Quick & Harris  Co.     Flea of nolo
contendere.     Fine, $10.     (F.  & D. no.  31380.    Sample no.  18039-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of apples that were found 
to bear arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered them injurious 
to health.
On February 21, 1934, 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 Quick & Harris Co., a corporation, 
Yakima, Wash., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about November 5, 1932, from the State of Washington 
into the State of Montana, of a quantity of apples which were adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it contained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, 
which might have rendered it injurious to health.
On May 4, 1934, a plea of nolo contendere was entered on behalf of the 
defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.