23624. Adulteration of cream.    V. S. v. Three 5-Gallon Cans and Two 10-
Gallon Cans of Cream.    Decree of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 34981. 
Sample no. 3314-B.)
On December 1, 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 five cans of cream 
at St. Joseph, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce, on or about November 19, 1934, in various shipments by M. F. 
Pease, Denton, Kans.; L. C. Nieman, Nortonville, Kans.; W. Wehring, Sr., 
Nortonville, Kans.; Frank Jedicka, Hanover, Kans.; Jesse L. Kaster, Denton, 
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 December 1, 1934, the product being spoiled and unfit for human consump- 
tion, and the consignee, the Blue Valley Creamery Co., St. Joseph, Mo., having 
consented to its destruction, judgment was entered ordering that it be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.