23430. Adulteration of cream.    TJ. S. v. Nine 5-Gallon Cans of Cream.    De¬
cree of destruction.    (F. & D. no. 33554.    Sample no. 20527-B.)
On September 7, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of nine 5-gallon
cans of cream at Pittsburgh, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, on or about September 6, 1934, in various shipments 
by H. R. Morris, Hundred, W. Va.; Lester Holmes, Rohresville, Md.; L. C. 
Curry, Bridgeport, W. Va.; S. C. Williams, Bridgeport, W. Va.; J. B. Henderson, 
Bridgeport, W. Va.; C. H. Woodford, Lost Creek, W. Va.; Martin Wolfe, 
Newburg, W. Va.; and V. Neel, Fairmont, W. Va.; 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 September 8, 1934, the product being spoiled and unfit for human con-, 
sumption,  and the  consignee  the  Fairmont  Creamery  Co.,   Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
having requested its immediate destruction, judgments were entered ordering 
that it be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.