28489. Adulteration of maple sirup.     U. S. v. 2 Drums of Maple Sirup.     Decree
ordering product released under bond for deleading.     (F. & D. No. 39645. 
Sample No. 21110-C.)
This product contained excessive lead.
On May 25,1937, the United States attorney for the District of Vermont, acting 
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court a libel 
praying seizure and condemnation of two drums of maple sirup at Rutland, Vt., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
April 27,1937, from Cattaraugus, N. Y., by W. H. Lincoln, and charging adultera- 
tion 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 injurious to 
health.
On January 17, 1938, the G. H. Grimm Co., Rutland, Vt., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having petitioned the release of the 
product, the article was ordered released under bond conditioned that it be 
deleaded in order to remove the injurious ingredient.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.