27822. Adulteration of cherries.    U. S. v. 5 Crates of Cherries.    Default decree
of   condemnation   and  destruction.     (F.   &  D.   No.   40276.     Sample   No. 
49871-C.)
This product was contaminated with arsenic and lead.
On August 18, 1937, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of five crates of cher- 
ries at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about August 13, 1937, by C. C. Kneibes from Watervliet, Mich., 
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 
harmful to health.
On September 29, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HAEET L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.