28159. Adulteration of apples.    V. S. v. 56 Baskets of Apples.    Default decree
of   condemnation   and   destruction.      (F.   &  D.   No.   40459.     Sample  No. 
62486-C.)
This product was contaminated with lead.
On October 1, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 56 baskets of apples 
at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about September 30, 1937, from Sewell, N. J., by Samuel Acree, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained an added 
poisonous or deleterious ingredient, lead, which might have rendered it harmful 
to health.
On October 18, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
HARRY L. BEOWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.