23641. Adulteration of cream.    U. S. v. 13 Cans of Cream.    Consent decree
of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 33473.    Sample no. 3224-B.)
On or about September 1, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Kentucky, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 13 cans 
of cream at Louisville, Ky., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, on or about August 29, 1934, in various lots by Mrs. 
George Dix, Jeffersonville, Ind.; Mason Shireman, Corydon, Ind.; Wayne 
Cunningham, Laconia, Ind.; B. W. Brown, Laconia, Ind.; Mrs. Bessie Hunt 
(Armour Cream Station), Trenton, Tenn.; Armour Creameries, Jackson, Tenn.; 
Armour Cream Station—Mrs. Alton Goolsby, Lafayette, Tenn.; Felix Jenkins, 
Marengo, Ind.; M. N. Carter, English, Ind.; Basil J. Welp, Dubois, Ind.; 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 or about September 1, 1934, the product being spoiled and unfit for 
human consumption and the consignee, the Armour Creameries, Louisville, 
Ky., having recommended its immediate destruction, judgment was entered 
ordering that it be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.