24014. Adulteration of apples.   U.  S.  v.  12 Boxes and  13 Boxes  of Apples.
Consent   decrees   of   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   no.   32386.    Sample   no. 
41276-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of apples which bore arsenic and 
lead  in  amounts  that might have rendered  them  injurious  to  health.
On or about February 8, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of 
North Dakota, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 25 boxes of 
apples, in part at Bismarck, N. Dak., and in part at Mandan, N. Dak., con- 
signed by Moore Bros., Waitsburg, Wash., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about January 9, 1934, from Waitsburg, 
Wash., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part: " Fancy Spitzberger Moore Bros., Waitsburg, 
Wash."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained arsenic and lead, added poisonous substances, which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On February 21, 1934, Moore Bros., having admitted the material allegations 
of the libels and having consented to the entry of decrees, judgments were 
entered ordering the product destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.