22809. Adulteration of butter.    U.   S.  v.  1  Box  of Butter.     Default  decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & O. no. 32872. 
Sample no. 70609-A.)
A sample of butter taken from the shipment involved in this case was found 
to contain rodent hairs, human hairs, mold, and other extraneous matter.
On June 7,1934. 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 one box of butter at New 
York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about May 28, 1934, by Sponsler Bros., from Everett, Pa., 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 July 16, 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.