19848. Adulteration of apples.    V.  S.  -r.   756 Boxes  of Apples.    Decree  of
condemnation    and    forfeiture.    Product    released    under   bond. 
(10015-A.    P. & D. No. 28297.)
Arsenic and lead were found on samples of apples taken from the interstate 
shipment involved in this action.
On May 9, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 756 boxes of apples, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about April 25, 1932, by the Wells & Wade Fruit Co. 
from Wenatchee, Wash., to Baltimore, Md., and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Wells & 
Wade Fruit Co.   Twin WW Brand, Wenatchee, Washington, Fancy Winesaps."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, which 
might have rendered it harmful to health.
On May 16, 1932, the Wells & Wade Fruit Co., Wenatchee, Wash., having 
appeared as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
released to the said claimant for sorting or reconditioning, upon payment of 
costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,000, conditioned in part 
that it should not be sold or disposed of contrary to the food and drugs act 
and all other laws. The bond further provided that any portion of the product 
found adulterated after sorting and reconditioning be destroyed.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.