25570. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 168 Boxes of Butter.    Decree of con¬
demnation.     Product  released under bond to be  denatured.     (F.  & D.
no. 35659.    Sample no. 36268-B.)
This case involved butter that contained mold and filth.
On June 7, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 168 boxes of butter at Worcester, 
Mass., consigned on June 1, 1935, alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce by the Beatrice Creamery Co., from Champaign, Ill., and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was 
labeled in part: "White Rose Farm Rolls Butter * * * Beatrice Creamery 
Company    *    *    *    Chicago, U. S. A."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance.
On February 11, 1936, the Beatrice Creamery Co. having appeared as claimant 
and having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and it was ordered that the product be released under bond, conditioned 
that it be denatured and disposed of for purposes other than for human 
consumption.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.