28300. Adulteration of apples.     TJ.  S.  v.  98  Crates  of Apples.     Default decree
of   condemnation  and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   No.   40976.     Sample   No. 
59744-C.)
This product was contaminated with arsenic and lead.
On October 29, 1937, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 98 crates of apples at 
Joliet, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about October 24, 1937, from Glenn, Mich., by the Cash Wholesale Produce Co. 
to itself at Joliet, Ill., 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 13,1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered ordering the product destroyed.
HARRY L. BEOWN, Acting Secretary of A Agriculture.