26623. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 1 Can of Butter.    Default decree of con¬
demnation and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 38573.    Sample no. 23420-C.)
This case involved butter that contained maggots, small insects, human and 
cow hairs, mold, and nondescript dirt.
On November 11, 1936, 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 can of butter at 
Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about November 2, 1936, by N. J. Park from Paintsville, Ky., 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 December 15, 1936, 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.