20957. Adulteration of apples.    U.  S. v. 756 Boxes of Apples.     Consent de¬
cree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released   under 
bond.     (F. & D. no. 30019.    Sample no. 28162-A.)
This case involved a quantity of apples that were found to bear arsenic and 
lead in amounts which might have rendered them injurious to health.
On March 11, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri, 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 
756 boxes of apples at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about February 28, 1933, by J. C. Hale, 
from Buena, Wash., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Man O' War Brand Washington 
Apples E. S. Small, Inc. Yakima, Wash."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous or deleterious ingredients, lead and arsenic, which 
might have rendered it injurious to health.
On March 20, 1933, the Cochrane Brokerage Co., Kansas City, Mo., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the claimant upon payment 
of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned that it 
be brought into compliance with the law under the supervision of this 
Department.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.