27950. Adulteration of apples.    IT. S. v. 355 Baskets of Apples.    Consent decree
entered  providing  for   release  of product  under  bond to  be  recondi- 
tioned.     (F. & D. No. 40455.    Sample No. 41156-C.)
This product was contaminated with lead and arsenic.
On September 27, 1937, 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 355 baskets of apples 
at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about September 23, 1937, by J. F. Cottam from Veyo, Utah, 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, lead and arsenic, which might have rendered it inju- 
rious to health.
On September 30, 1937, the Mclnnis Packing Corporation, Ltd., Los Angeles, 
Calif., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having con- 
sented to the entry of a decree, the court ordered release of the product under 
bond to be reconditioned. It was reconditioned by washing under the supervision 
of this Department.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.