28139. Adulteration of apples.    U. S. v. 166 Baskets of Apples.    Default decree
of   condemnation  and   destruction.     (F.   &  D.   No.   40441.    Sample  Nos. 
58944-C, 58946-C.)
This product was contaminated with lead.
On September 30, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 166 baskets 
of apples at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about September 29, 1937, from Riverside, N. J., 
by J. Austin Haines, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained an added poison- 
ous or deleterious ingredient, lead, which might have rendered it harmful to 
health.
On October 18, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.