24900. Adulteration of cream.    U. S. v. Three 10-Gallon Cans of Cream, et al.
Consent decrees of condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. nos. 36167, 
36479.    Sample nos. 26096-B, 38488-B.)
These cases involved cream which was found to be in various stages of 
decomposition.
On July 20 and August 7, 1985, the United States attorney for the District 
of Colorado, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 11 cans of cream 
at Denver, Colo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about July 17 and July 30, 1935, in various consignments by 
Harold McHodgkins and X L Service Store, Abbott, N. Mex.; Swift & Co., 
Sidney, Nebr.; Joseph E. Barton, Chappell, Nebr.; Ora J. Brown, Wheatland, 
Wyo.; Albert Borton, Fort Laramie, Wyo.; Glen L. Homey, Swift & Co., 
Brewster, Kans.; Pearl Gaunt, Venango, Nebr.; D. A. Schultz, Clayton, N. Mex., 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it was decomposed.
On July 20 and August 7, 1935, Swift & Co. and the Farmers & Merchants 
Creamery Co., Denver, Colo., having appeared and admitted the allegations of 
the libels and consented to the entry of decrees, judgments of condemnation were 
entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.