26634. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v.  3 Cans of Butter.    Default decree  of
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 38537.    Sample no. 16477-C.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of butter that contained maggots, 
human and rodent hairs, insects and fragments of insects, bits of paper, and 
nondescript dirt.
On October 31, 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 three cans of butter at Baltimore, 
Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about October 29, 1936, by W. B. Hunt from Gretna, Va., and charging adul- 
teration 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 8,1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.