21967. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 1 Can of Butter.    Default decree of
destruction.     (F. & D. no. 31895.    Sample no. 50506-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that was found to contain filth.
On January 9, 1934, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Ohio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one 30-pound can of butter, 
at Cincinnati, Ohio, consigned by Cecil Pennington, Access, Ky., on January 4, 
1934, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce from 
the State of Kentucky into the State of Ohio, 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 in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On January 17, 1934, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment was entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States 
marshal.
M. Li. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.