0646. Adulteration, of apple lnutter. U. S. * * * v. 055 Cases of Apple?
Butter and 120 Cases of Apple Butter. Default decrees of condem??
nation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. Kos. 8901, 8902, I. S.?
Xo?. 89JC-P, 8947-p, S948-p.    S. Nos. C-S50, C-851.)
On March 25, 1918, the United States attorney for the Western District of?
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United Staies for said district libels praying the seizure?
and condemnation of 955 cases, each containing 48 jars, and 120 cases, each con??
taining 24 jars, of apple butter, remaining unsold in the original unbroken pack??
ages at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the 955 cases were shipped on or about?
December 17, 1917, and transported from the State of Nebraska into the State?
of Missouri, and that the 120 cases were shipped on or about October G, 1917,?
by the Dawson Brothers Manufacturing Co., Memphis, Tenn., and transported?
from the State of Tennessee into the State of Missouri, and charging adultera??
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part,?
" Dawson's Brand Pure Apple Butter. * " :'" Matte by Dawson Bro^. Mfg.?
Co."
Adulteration of the articlo in each shipment was alleged in the libels for the?
reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 16, 1918, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments of?
condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court that?
the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
C. P. MAEVIX, Acting tiecrciary of Agi wulluve.
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