23218. Adulteration of apples.   17.   S.  v.  21  Boxes   of Apples.     Default  de¬
cree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 33735.    Sample 
no.  12073-B.)
This case involved a shipment of apples which were found to contain lead.
On September 25, 1934, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 21 boxes of apples 
at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about September 16, 1934, by Fruit Growers Service Co., from 
Olds, Wash., 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 it injurious to health.
On October 9, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.