24457. Adulteration of butter.     U.  S. v. 45 Pounds of Butter.     Default decree
of   condemnation   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   no.   35104.    Sample   no. 
4783-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that contained rodent, cow, and 
human hairs, and nondescript dirt.
On January 14, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 45 pounds of butter at 
Baltimore, Md., consigned by the Porter Produce Co., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about January 7, 1935, from 
Johnson City, Tenn., Into the State of Maryland, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "From 
Porter Produce Company    *   *    *    Johnson City, Tennessee."
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 March 4, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.