22243. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 2 Barrels of Butter.    Default decree
of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   ordered   sold   as   in- 
edible grease.     (F. & D. no.  32367.     Sample no.  54372-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter which was low in milk fat. A sample 
taken from the product was found to contain rodent and cow hairs, particles 
of feathers and nondescript debris, mold, insects, a maggot, and fiber.
On January 29,1934, 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 2 barrels of butter at Middletown,
Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or 
about January 11, 1934, by Faunce & Brooke Co., from Washington, D. C, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was 
labeled in part: " Faunce & Brooke Co.,   *   *   *   Washington, D. C."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for 
butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat as 
provided by the act of March 4, 1923. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
reason that the article consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or 
putrid animal substance.
On March 15, 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 sold as a deteriorated product to be used as inedible grease.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.