23588. Adulteration of cream. TJ. S. v. Seven 5-Gallon Cans, et al., of 
Cream. Decree of destruction. (F. & D. no. 34857. Sample no. 
27303-B.)
On November 23, 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 17 cans of cream 
at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce, on or about November 17, 1934, in various lots by A. F. Giles, Celeste, 
Tex.; Jim Bishop, Castle, Okla.; Oscar Klaverweiden, Medwell, Okla. (from 
Keyes, Okla.) ; Mrs. Lee Wilkerson, Leonard, Tex.; Ed Hudson, Perrin, Tex.; 
Garland Stone, Alba, Tex.; G. H. Barfield, Kaufman, Tex.; R. L. Tolbert, 
Greenville, Tex.; American Butter Co., Chelsea Station, Vinita, Okla.; B. M. 
Jones, Humbolt, Kans.; Erie Farmers Union Cooperative Association, Erie, 
Kans.; L. Moore, Hiawatha, Kans.; A. H. Fawkes & Sons, Garnett, Kans.; 
American Butter Co.; Vinita, Okla. (Nowata Station) ; Johnson Co. Produce 
Co., Olathe, Kans.; 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 November 24, 1934, the product being spoiled and unfit for human 
consumption, and the consignee, the American Butter Co., Kansas City, Mo., 
having recommended its immediate destruction, judgment was entered ordering 
that it be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.