24599. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 27%  Cases of Butter.     Consent decree
of destruction.    (F. & D. no. 35106.    Sample nos. 4768-B, 4769-B, 4770-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter which contained mold, insects, and 
nondescript dirt.
On December 2/T, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 27% cases of 
butter at Roanoke, Va., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about December 1, 1934, by Swift & Co., from Lexington, 
Ky., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: "Swift's Brookfield Butter * * * Distributed 
by Swift & Company General Offices: Chicago."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
On April 30, 1935, Swift & Co. having consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment was entered ordering that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Actmg Secretary of Agriculture.