23331. Adulteration of  butter.   U.   S.  v.  3  Cans  Of Butter.   Default decree
of  condemnation  and  destruction.     (F.  & D.  no.   33670.    Sample no. 
4886-B.) 
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to 
contain parts of insects, animal hairs, maggots, paper, mold, and other filth. 
On September 24, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of three cans of butter at 
Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce, on or about September 21, 1934, by George H. Hatfield, from Sneed- 
ville, Tenn., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On November 3, 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.