126. Adulteration of   applesauce.     TJ.   S.   v.   7   Cases   of   Applesauce.     Consent
decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F.  D. C. No.  702.    Sample No. 
75235-D.)
This product was undergoing decomposition and was otherwise unfit for food 
because of its unpleasant metalic taste.
On October 10, 1939, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois filed a libel against seven cases of applesauce at Chicago, Ill., alleging 
that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce by Bell & Co. from 
Cincinnati, Ohio, on or about September 13, 1939; and charging that it was 
adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed substance. 
This was a return shipment of goods originally transported by Bell & Co. truck 
from the Outlet Sales Co., Chicago, to Cincinnati on August 20, 1939. It was 
labeled in part: "Lum Apple Sauce * * * Packed By the Lum Packing 
Co., Inc., Chambersburg, Pa."
On November 8, 1939, the claimant having consented, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.