21875. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 3 Barrels and 6 Barrels of Butter.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F.
& D. nos. 31729, 31730.    Sample nos. 66107-A, 66108-A.)
This case involved interstate shipments of butter that was found to contain 
mold, rodent, cow, and human hairs, fragments of feathers, insects and parts of 
their bodies, wood splinters, and other extraneous matter.
On December 18, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 9 barrels of butter 
at New York, N.Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce in part on or about December 2, 1933, by the Knoxville Poultry & Eg; 
Co., from Knoxville, Tenn., and in part on or about December 5,1933, by EL L. 
Piel Co., from Baltimore, Md., and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On January 19, 1934, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
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