28140. Adulteration of apples.     IT. S. v. 165 Baskets and 139 Baskets of Apples.
Default  decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F.  & D. No.  40443. 
Sample Nos. 62463-C, 62466-C.)
This product was contaminated with lead.
On September 29, 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 304 baskets 
of apples at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about September 28, 1937, from Moorestown, N. J., 
by Harold L. Collins, 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 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.