22859. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. S Tubs of Butter. Default decree 
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. no. 33230. 
Sample no. 6776-B.)
Samples of butter taken from the shipment involved in this case were found 
to contain mold, insects, rodent and human hair, and other filth.
On July 9, 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 eight tubs of butter 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce, on or about July 1, 1934, by the Beasley Produce Exchange, from 
Roanoke, Va., 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 consisted 
wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On July 31, 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.