26639. Adulteration of butter.     TT.   S. v. 1  Tub  of Butter.     Default decree  of 
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 38556.    Sample no. 16484-C.)
This case involved butter that contained maggots, insect parts, mold, rodent 
hair, and miscellaneous dirt.
On November 6, 1936, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one tub of butter at Balti- 
more, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about November 4, 1936, by Hurt & Co., from Ferrum, Va., 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 12, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.