23838. Adulteration of cream.    IT. S. v. One 10-Gallon Can of Cream.    Con¬
sent decree of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 35263.    Sample no. 27292-B.)
On February 20,1935, 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 10-gallon can 
of cream at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, on or about February 19, 1935, by W. W. Smith, from 
Caldwell, 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 February 20, 1935, the consignee, the Harding Cream Co., Kansas City,.
Mo., having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment was entered ordering" 
that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.