22253. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product ordered sold as inedible 
tallow.     (F. & D. no. 31813-B.    Sample no. 54474-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter which contained mold, rodent hairs, 
fragments of flies, cow hairs, metal filings, wood splinters, and nondescript 
debris.
On January 5, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia, holding a district court, a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 10 tubs of butter at Washington, D. C, alleging 
that the article was in the possession of the Terminal Refrigerating & Ware- 
housing Corporation, stored for Mrs. C. R. Greer, Washington, D. C, and was 
being offered for sale in the District of Columbia, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: 
'• From Jacob Beachy Aurora, West Virginia."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted wholly or in part of a filthy and decomposed animal substance.
On May 21, 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 by the United States marshal, provided that it first be 
converted into inedible tallow.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.