22762. Adulteration of  apple  butter.    V.   S.  v.   30   Cases   of  Apple  Butter.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F.
& D. no. 32611.    Sample no. 71085-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of apple butter, samples of which 
were found to contain lead.
On April 26, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
<;out a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 30 cases of apple butter at 
Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about March 30, 1934, by the Pacific Northwest Canning Co., from 
Puyallup, Wash., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act. The article was labeled in part: "Paul's Skookum Apple Butter. Dis- 
tributors Pacific Northwest Canning Co."
If was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous and deleterious ingredient, lead, which might have 
rendered it harmful to health.
On June 7, 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. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.