23602. Adulteration of  cream.     XT.   S.  v.  Three  5-Gallon  Cans   and   Six  lO-
Gallon Cans of Cream.    Decree of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 34899. 
Sample no. 27311-B.)
On November 28, 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 nine cans of cream 
at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce, on or about November 24, 1934, in various shipments by Bessie 
Carter, Thayer, Kans.; Latham & Son, Pleasanton, Kans.; Raymond Card, 
Coffeyville, Kans.; J. S. Knight, Adair, Okla.; Mrs. H. F. Williams, Madison, 
Kans.; Robert Tolliver, Wetmore, Kans.; R. H. Maas, Alma, Kans.; Anna 
White, Water Valley, Ark.; and R. G. Latimer, Arkinda, 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 November 30, 1934, the product being spoiled and unfit for human con- 
sumption, and the consignee, the Meriden Creamery Co., Kansas City, Mo., hav- 
ing consented to its destruction, judgment was entered ordering that it be 
destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.