22549. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S. v. 3 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture,  and  destruction.     (F.  & D.  no.  32697. 
Sample no. 69633-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, a sample of which was found to 
contain cow hairs, rodent hairs, a bug, and miscellaneous other filth.
On April 20, 1934, 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 three tubs of butter 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce, on or about April 2, 1934, by W. W. Butler, from Dallas, Tex., 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 May 10, 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.