20842. Adulteration of    apples.     U.     S.    v.    84    Boxes     of    Apples.    Default
decree of destruction.    (F. & D. no. 30091.    Sample no. 34185-A.)
This action involved an interstate shipment of apples that were found to 
bear lead in an amount that might have rendered them injurious to health.
On or about March 16, 1933, the United States attorney for the Eastern 
District of Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 84 boxes of apples at Hot Springs, Ark., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about January 17, 1933, 
by the Sunnyslope Fruit Exchange, from Wenatchee, Wash., to Hot Springs, 
Ark., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: "Wenoka Apples * * * Sunnyslope Fruit 
Exchange, Wenatchee, Washington."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained an added poisonous or deleterious substance, lead, which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On April 7, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.