23369. Adulteration of apples.     IT.   S.  v.  160  Bushels   of  Apples.     Product
adjudged adulterated. Released under bond conditioned that 
deleterious ingredients be removed. (F. & D. no. 34132. Sample no. 
18309-B.)
Examination of the apples involved in this case showed the presence of 
arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered them injurious to 
health.
On or about September 27, 1934, the United States attorney for the District 
of Kansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 160 bushels of apples 
at Pomona, Kans., alleging that the article had been transported in interstate 
commerce, on or about September 19, 1934, by A. D. Johnson, of Pomona, "Kans., 
from Gravette, Ark., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained added poison- 
ous ingredients, arsenic and lead, which might have rendered it injurious to 
health.
On October 24, 1934, A. D. Johnson, claimant, having admitted the material 
allegations of the libel and having filed a cash bond, conditioned that the 
apples be washed in an acid solution under the supervision of this Department, 
a decree was entered adjudging the product to be adulterated, and the apples 
having been washed in. accordance with the terms of the bond and brought 
into compliance with the law, the bond was ordered exonerated.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.