NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1408.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF DRIED APPLE CHOPS.
On September 28, 1910, the United States Attorney for the South- 
ern District of Iowa, acting upon a report of J. R. Chittick, a col- 
laborating chemist and inspector of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, duly authorized and commissioned as such by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United 
States for said district a libel praying condemnation and forfeiture 
of 40 bags of apple chops, in the possession of the Chicago & North- 
western Railway Co., at Des Moines, Iowa, the same having been 
billed from John H. Leslie & Co., Chicago, Ill., to A. A. Deiser & Co., 
Des Moines, Iowa.
Examination of a sample of said product, made by the said J. R. 
Chittick, collaborating chemist, as aforesaid, showed the product to 
be in a filthy condition, infested with worms and insects, rendering 
it unfit for human food. The libel alleged that the product, after 
transportation from the State of Illinois into the State of Iowa, 
remained in the original unbroken packages, and was adulterated 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, because 
it consisted of a filthy, decomposed vegetable substance, infested with 
worms and insects, rendering it unfit for human food, and was 
therefore liable to seizure for confiscation.
On November 19, 1910, the case coming on for hearing, the court 
found the product adulterated as alleged in the libel and entered a 
decree condemning and forfeiting it to the United States and order- 
ing its destruction by the marshal.
JAMES WILSON,. 
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February IS, 1912.
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