25870. Adulteration of apple butter.    U. S. v. 141 Jars of Apple Butter.   Default
decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 35699. Sample 
no. 31935-B.)
This case involved a shipment of apple butter samples of which were found 
to contain lead and arsenic trioxide, insect debris, rodent hair, human hair, and 
fragments of feathers.
On June 28, 1935, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Michigan, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 141 jars of apple 
butter at Detroit, Mich., shipped on or about April 1, 1935, alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce by the D. B. Scully Syrup Co., 
from Chicago, Ill., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Scully's Pure Apple Butter, Net 
Weight One Pound Twelve Ounces."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained added poisonous 
and deleterious ingredients, lead and arsenic trioxide, that might have been 
injurious to health; and in that it consisted wholly or in part of a filthy 
vegetable substance.
On August 8, 1935, no claimant having appeared judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.