19257. Adulteration of   cream.     TJ.   S.   v.   Four   10-Gallon   Cans,   et   al.,   of
Cream. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction. (F. & D. Nos. 27276. 27277, 27278, 27287. 27304. I. S. Nos 
46007, 46008, 46009, 46010, 46011, 46012.    S. Nos. 5464, 5466, 5486, 5494.)
Examination of the cream in the shipments herein described having shown 
the product to contain formaldehyde, the Secretary of Agriculture reported 
the matter to the United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
On November 23, 1931 and December 4, 1931, the United States attorney 
filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels 
praying seizure and condemnation of sixteen 10-gallon cans of cream, in part 
at the following points in Florida: Tampa, St. Petersburg, Hialeah, and Or- 
lando, and remaining in the original unbroken packages at said points.   It was
alleged in the libels that the article had been shipped in various consignments 
on or about November 4, 1931, November 12, 1931, and November 18, 1931, by 
the Eatonton Creamery (Inc.), from Eatonton, Ga., into the State of Florida, 
and that it was adulterated in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: " From Eatonton Creamery, Inc., Eatonton, Georgia, 
Pasteurized Cream produced in Georgia."
Adulteration was alleged in the libels filed with respect to portions of the 
article for the reason that a deleterious ingredient, formaldehyde, which might 
have rendered it injurious to health, had been added to and substituted for the 
said article. Adulteration was alleged in the libel filed with respect to eight 
10-gallon cans of the article for the reason that formaldehyde had been sub- 
stituted for cream, and in that the article contained an added poisonous or 
deleterious ingredient, formaldehyde, which might have rendered it injurious 
to health.
On January 6, 1932 and January 9, 1932, no claimant having appeared for 
the property, decrees of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.