24404. Adulteration of apples.    IT. S. v. 852 Boxes of Apples.    Product released
under bond.    (F. & D. no. 35259.    Sample no. 360-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 February 18, 1935, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 852 boxes
of Rome Beauty apples at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had 
been shipped in interstate commerce on or about February 6, 1935, by K. Lane 
Johnson Co., from Buena, Wash., and charging adulteration in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Rome 
Beauty   *    *    *   K. Lane Johnson."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained added poisonous 
or deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, which might have rendered it 
injurious to health.
On February 19, 1935, Jacob Greenfield, trading as the Greenfield Fruit 
& Produce Co., Los Angeles, Calif., having appeared as claimant for the prop- 
erty and having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment was entered 
ordering that the product be released under bond conditioned that it should 
not be disposed of in violation of the Federal Food and Drugs Act.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.