26685. Adulteration of cherries.    TJ. S. v. 34 Crates of Cherries.    Default decree
of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 38251.    Sample no. 14746-C.)
This case involved cherries that were contaminated with arsenic and lead.
On August IS, 1936, 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 34 crates of cherries 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about August 12, 1936, by E. P. Johnson & Co., from Shelby, Mich., 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled: "Dykman Emery E Gowell Shelby Mich."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained added poison- 
ous and deleterious ingredients, arsenic and lead, in amounts which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On November 20, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.