25467. Adulteration of apples.    U. S. v. 45% Bushels and 37 Bushels of Apples.
Default decrees of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 36587. 
Sample no. 39141-B.)
These cases involved apples which were contaminated with arsenic and lead.
On or about September 25, 1935, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 82% bushels of 
apples at Wichita Falls, Tex., consigned from Bentonville, Ark., alleging that the 
article had been shipped on or about September 11, 1935, by Sam Brettler, 
from the State of Arkansas, into the State of Texas, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained added poisonous 
or deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, which might have rendered it in- 
jurious to health.
On November 19, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemna- 
tion were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.