22543. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 11 Cases of Butter.    Default decree
of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 32630.    Sample nos. 61993-A, 61994-A.)
A sample of butter taken from the shipment involved in this case was found 
to contain mold and other filth, such as flies, rodent hairs, roaches, and ants.
On March 20, 1934, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 11 cases of butter 
at Mobile, Ala., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about March 8, 1934, by the Louisville Creamery Co., from Louis- 
ville, Miss., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part: " Southern Belle Creamery Butter [or " Cresta 
Creamery Butter"]    *    *    *    Distributed by Swift & Co."
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, and putrid animal substance.
On May 7, 1934, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment was 
entered ordering that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.