22834. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 100 Pounds of Butter.    Default de¬
cree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &  D.   no.
32956. Sample no. 7060-A.)
Samples of butter taken from the shipment involved in this case were found 
to contain mold, parts of insects, rodent hairs, feathers, and other extraneous 
matter.
On June 1, 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 100 pounds of butter 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about May 24, 1934, by W. S. Harris, from Mount Airy, N. C., 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 June 22, 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.