25013. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S. v.  65 Cases,  et al., of Butter.    Default
decrees of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. nos. 35660, 35705, 
35706, 35708, 35732. Sample nos. 16471-B, 1C472-B, 22590-B, 22606-B, 
22618-B, 38319-B.)
These cases involved shipments of butter, samples of which were found to 
contain mold and other extraneous matter.
On May 29, June 4, and June 6, 1935, the United States attorney for the) 
Eastern District of Louisiana, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 
95 cases and 55 tubs of butter at New Orleans, La. On June 19, 1935, a libel 
was filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against 15 tubs of butter at 
Philadelphia, Pa. The libels charged that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce between the dates of May 7 and June 11, 1935, by the 
Lexington Ice & Creamery Co., from Lexington, Miss., and that it was adulter- 
ated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy and decomposed animal substance.
On July 8 and September 4, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgments 
of condemnation were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GBBQG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.