23515. Adulteration of cream.    IT.  S. v.  One  Gallon  Can  of  Cream.    De¬
cree of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 34712.    Sample no. 11472-B.)
On December 13, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one can of cream at 
Springfield, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce, on or about December 4, 1934, by W. D. Ledbetter, from Hackett, Ark., 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it was moldy, rancid, putrid, 
filthy, and decomposed.
On December 13,1934, the product being spoiled and unfit for human consump- 
tion, and the consignee, the Merchants Creamery Co., Springfield, Mo., having 
consented to its destruction, judgment was entered ordering that it be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.