24797. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 13 Cases of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 35555.    Sample no. 28498-B.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of butter that contained mold.
On April 26, 1935, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 13 cases of butter at 
Shreveport, La,, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about April 17, 1935, by Swift & Co., Ltd., from Paris, Tex., and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was 
labeled in part: "Big Chain Golden Creamery Butter * * * Mfd by Bordens 
Products Co Inc Fort Worth Texas."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy and decomposed animal substance.
On June 17, 1935, no claim having been entered, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. B. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.