25184. Adulteration of butter.     TJ. S. v. 8 Tubs and 8 Tubs of Butter.    Default
decrees  of condemnation and destruction.     (F.  & D.  nos. 35712, 35714. 
Sample nos. 22604-B, 22607-B.)
These cases involved butter samples of which were found to contain mold 
and fragments of insects.
On May 29, 1935, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Louisiana, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 16 tubs of butter at 
New Orleans, La., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce, on or about May 21 and May 25, 1935, by the Moon Dairy Products 
Co., from Moon, Miss., and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act as amended. The misbranding charge was 
stricken by amendments to the libels dated June 5 and June 6, 1935, respec- 
tively.
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 9, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemnation 
were entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
"W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.