26276. Adulteration of cream.     IT. S. v. One 8-Gallon Can and One Gallon Can,
of Cream.     Consent decree of destruction.     (F. & D. no. 37862.    Sample 
no. 73914-B.) #
This case involved cream that was filthy and decomposed.
On or about 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 two cans of cream 
at Denver, Colo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about June 11, 1936, by J. C. Dowda, from New Castle, Tex., and 
H. B. Schrank, from Aleman, Tex., and charging adulteration in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it was moldy, yeasty, 
putrid, filthy, and decomposed.
On June 13, 1936, the Farmers & Merchants Creamery, of Denver, Colo., the 
consignee, having filed a statement confessing the allegations of the libel and 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment was entered ordering that 
the product be destroyed.
HARRY L. BROWN. Acting Secretary of Agriculture.