25501. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S. v. 1 Tub of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & £>. no. 36761.    Sample no. 39891-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to con- 
tain maggots, ants, pupae, fragments of insects, hairs, mold, and nondescript dirt.
On October 18, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed In the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one tub of butter at Baltimore, Md
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
October 17, 1935, by T. H. Utz, from Estes, Va., and charging adulteration 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, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On November 21, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.