29156. Adulteration of maple sirup.     TJ. S. v. 4 Drums of Maple Sirup.     Consent
decree of condemnation.     Product released under bond for deleadingr.
(F. & D. No. 42418.    Sample No. 22734-D.)
This product contained lead.
On May 19, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
¦court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of four drums of maple sirup 
at Chelsea, Mass.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about May 9, 1938, from Sherman, N. Y., by Gordon M. Tice; 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 
injurious to health.
On June 22, 1938, the New England Maple Syrup Co., Chelsea, Mass., claim- 
ant, having admitted the allegations of the, libel, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered released under bond conditioned that 
it be released.
HABBT L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.