23859. Adulteration of packing; stock butter.    V. S. v. 75 Barrels of Butter.
Product released under bond for use as commercial grease.     (F.
& D. no. 31859.    Sample no. 59237-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of packing stock butter that 
contained maggots and other filth.
On December 22, 1933, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 75 barrels of packing 
stock butter at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, on or about September 20, 1933, by the Tennessee Egg Co., 
from Atlanta, Ga., 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 November 27, 1934, Fred M. Switzer, trading as the Missouri Candy Co., 
St. Louis, Mo., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment was entered ordering that 
the product be released under bond, conditioned that it be denatured and 
disposed of as commercial grease.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.