25347. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 24 Tubs of Butter.     Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 36384.    Sample no. 30564-B.)
This case involved butter that contained mold.
On August 27, 1935, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 24 tubs of 
butter at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about August 19, 1935, by the Davis-Cleaver Produce 
Co., from Quincy, Ill., and charging adulteration 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, putrid, or decomposed animal substance.
On October 2, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of>»condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
R. G. TUGWHLL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.