28245. Adulteration of apples.    IT. S. v. 472 Boxes of Apples.    Consent decree
entered.     Product  released  under  bond.     (F.  & D.  No.  41844.     Sample 
Nos. 18616-D, 18617-D.)
This product was contaminated with lead and arsenic.
On February 18, 1938, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 472 boxes of apples 
at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about February 7, 1938, from Cashmere, Wash., by Cashmere 
Pioneer Growers, Inc., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it contained added poisonous 
or deleterious ingredients, lead and arsenic, which might have rendered it 
injurious to health.
On February 19, 1938, the Consolidated Produce Co., Los Angeles, Calif., 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment was entered 
ordering that the product be released under bond conditioned that it not be 
disposed of in violation of the Federal Food and Drugs Act.
HABEY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.