24970. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 25 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 35650.    Sample no. 21718-B).
This case involved a shipment of butter samples of which were found to 
contain mold.
On May 29, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 25 tubs of butter at Newark, 
N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about May 18, 1935, by Swift & Co., from Muskogee, Okla., and charging adul- 
teration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On September 4, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.