28012. Adulteration of pears.     U. S. v. 1 Carload of Pears.     Consent decree of
condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. No. 40600.    Sample No. 49735-C.)
This product was contaminated with arsenic and lead.
On September 30, 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 one carload of pears 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about September 22, 1937, from Derby, Mich., by Cohen-Gordon Co., 
of Chicago, Ill., consigned to themselves, 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 October 1, 1937, the claimant having admitted the allegations of the libel 
and consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation was entered 
and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.