21077. Adulteration of apple butter.    IT.  S. v. 95  Cases  of Apple Butter. 
Default   decree    of   condemnation,    forfeiture,   and    destruction.
(F. & D. no. 29766.    Sample no. 26550-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of apple butter that was found 
to contain insects.
On January 21, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 95 cases of apple butter at Cum- 
berland, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, 
on or about September 13, 1932, by the National Fruit Product Co., from Win- 
chester, Va., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs
Act.   The article was labeled in part:  (Jar) "Mt. Vernon Brand Apple Butter 
National Fruit Product Company, Incorporated, Washington, D.C."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy vegetable substance.
On June 15, 1933, the claimant having decided not to contest the action, judg 
lent of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.