23044. Adulteration of  butter.     17.  S. v. 3 Barrels  of Butter.    Default  de¬
cree of condemnation and  destruction.     (F.  & D.  no. 32931.     Sample 
no. 62369-A.)
A sample of butter taken from the shipment involved in this case was found 
to contain animal hairs, insects and parts of insects, portions of feathers, and 
nondescript debris.
On June 25, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of three barrels of butter at Middle- 
town, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about June 18, 1934, by Bentzel's Poultry and Egg House, from York, 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 September 7, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.