28134. Adulteration of apples.     IT.  S. v. 41 Baskets and 8 Baskets  of Apples.
Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. Nos. 40497. 
40502.    Sample Nos. 62523-C, 62566-C.)
This product was contaminated with lead.
On October 6 and 7, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Pennsylvania, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 49 baskets of 
apples at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about October 5 and G, 1937, from Moorestown, N. J.,
by E. H. Hoehn, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained an added 
poisonous or deleterious ingredient, lead, which might have rendered it injurious 
to health.
On November 1,1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.