21769. Adulteration of  apples.     U.   S. v.  100  Bushels   of  Apples.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under 
bond.    (F. & D. no. 33 640.    Sample no. 55933-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of apples that were found to 
contain arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered them injurious 
to health.
On or about September 28, 1933. the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 100 bushels 
of apples at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about September 16, 1933, by Chas. Lawson, from Omena, 
Mich., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, in 
amounts which might have rendered it injurious to health.
On November 14,1933, Thomas S. Smith & Co., Hart, Mich., 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 pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a good and sufficient bond, conditioned that 
the apples be washed under the supervision of this Department, in order to 
remove the deleterious ingredients.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.