23066. Adulteration of  butter.     U.   S.  -r.  1   Can   of  Butter.     Default   decree
of   condemnation- and   destruction.     (F.   &  D.   no.   33193.    Sample   no. 
62370-A.)
A sample of butter taken from the shipment involved in this case was found 
to contain insects, parts of insects, animal hair, maggots, mold, and nondescript 
debris.
On July 2, 1034, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, act- 
ing upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court a 
libel praying seizure and condemnation of one can of butter at Middletown, Md., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
June 28, 1934, by J. M. Fray & Co., from Barboursville, Va., and charging adul- 
teration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in 
part: (Tag) " From J. M. Fray & Company   *   *   *   Advance Mills, Virginia."
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 6, 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.