23861. Adulteration of butter.    V.  S. v. lO Barrels, et al., of Butter.     De¬
fault decrees of condemnation. Product disposed of for com- 
mercial purposes. (F. & D. nos. 31904 to 31908, incl. Sample nos. 
57732-A, 59081^-A, 59082-A, 59239-A, 59240-A.
These cases involved interstate shipments of butter which contained maggots, 
filth, and other foreign material.
On January 4 and 10, 1934, the United States attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of Missouri, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 36 barrels of 
packing stock butter at St Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce between the dates of October 10 and November 
27, 1933, by the Tennessee Egg Co., in various shipments from Atlanta, Ga., 
Knoxville, Tenn., and Chattanooga, Tenn., and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion 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 December 1, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemna- 
tion were entered and it was ordered that the product be denatured and dis- 
posed of for commercial purposes.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.