17444. Adulteration of cbeese.     U. S. v. 30 Boxes of Cheese.    Default decree
of forfeiture and destruction.     (F.  & D. No.  24516.    I.  S.  No. 031004. 
S. No. 2813.)
Samples of cheese from the herein described shipment having been found to 
contain excessive moisture, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
On February 12, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation 
of 30 boxes of cheese, remaining, in the original unbroken packages at Brod- 
head, Wis., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Redfern Cheese 
Co., from Warren, Ill., on October 10, 1929, and transported from the State 
of Illinois into the State of Wisconsin, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was adulterated 
in that excessive moisture had been mixed and packed with the said article, 
so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had 
been substituted wholly or in part for American cheese.
On March 26, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHUB M. HIDE, Secretary of Agriculture.