24937. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 12 Cases of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 35469.    Sample nos. 28290—B, 
28291-B, 28292-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that contained mold and other 
extraneous matter.
On April 5, 1935, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 12 cases of butter 
at Peoria, Ill.,, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about March 27 and March 28, 1935, by the Sugar Creek Creamery 
Co., from St Louis, Mo., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Golden Grain Creamery 
Butter", or "Blue Ribbon   *    *    *   Creamery Butter."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On June 26, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.