28271. Adulteration of apples.    TJ. S. v. 92 Crates of Apples.    Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. No. 40971.    Sample No. 67747-C.)
This product was contaminated with arsenic and lead.
On November 15, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Wisconsin, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 92 crates of apples 
at Milwaukee, Wis., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about November 11, 1937, by Alfred Erny from South Haven, 
Mich., 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 December 23, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered ordering the product destroyed.
HARBY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.