28147. Adulteration of apples.    U. S. v. 20 Baskets of Apples.    Default decree
of   condemnation   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   No.   40505.    Sample   No. 
62547-C.)
This product was contaminated with lead.
On October 9, 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 20 baskets of 
apples at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about October 8, 1937, from Mount Holly, N. J., 
by Eugene E. Beyer, 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 and deleterious ingredient, lead, which might have rendered it 
harmful to health.
On November 1, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HAEBY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.