26273. Adulteration of cream.     U.  S. v.  One  5-Gallon  Can of Cream.     Consent
decree of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 37857.     Sample no. 68088-B.)
This case involved cream that was filthy and decomposed.
On June 13, 1936, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one 5-gallon can of cream 
at Denver, Colo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about June 12, 1936, by J. G. Dickinson from Moorcroft, Wyo., 
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 or about June 19, 1936, the Capitol Hill Creamery Co., of Denver, Colo., 
having filed a statement confessing the allegations of the libel and having 
consented to the entry of an order of destruction, judgment was entered and 
it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.