27646. Adulteration of cream.     17.  S.  v. Two 10-Gallon Cans  of Cream   (and 4
other   seizure   actions).     Decrees   of   condemnation   and   destruction.
(F. & D. Nos. 40216 to 40220, incl. Sample Nos. 47823-C to 47829-C, Incl., 
47832-C to 47834-C, Incl., 47837-C.)
Samples of this product were found to be decomposed or filthy, or both.
On July 12, 1937, the United States attorney for the District of New Mexico, 
acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
libels praying seizure and condemnation of 35 10-gallon cans of cream at Portales, 
N. Mex., and one 10-gallon can and nine 5-gallon cans of cream at Clovis, N. Mex., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce between the 
dates of June 26 and July 2, 1937, in various shipments by Consumers Fuel Asso- 
ciation, Bovina, and Lariat, Tex.; I. Taylor, Muleshoe, Tex.; J. M. Hudson, 
Throckmorton, Tex.; O. T. Allison, Bronte, Tex; G. Synastehk, Midland, Tex.; 
F. C. Hamilton, Bowie, Tex.; H. C. King, Throckmorton, Tex.; A. L. Barnes, 
Roby, Tex.; W. H. Kistler, Muleshoe, Tex.; M. P. Page, Shallowater, Tex.; H. W. 
Dykes, Sudan, Tex.; C. R. Fryar, Midland, Tex; R. S, Ford, Farwell, Tex; 
P. J. Tate, Dimmitt, Tex.; John Lange, Nazareth, Tex.; E. L. Thompson, Aber- 
nathy and Nazareth, Tex.; O. V. Pylant, Lockley, Tex.; H. H. Dent, Spring Lake, 
Tex.; H. E. Baker, Stegall, Tex.; L. M. Thompson, Dimmitt, Tex.; H. Patterson, 
Olton, Tex.; and H. N. Wagonner, Dimmitt, Tex., and charging adulteration in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On July 13, 1937, no claim having been entered for the product, judgments 
were entered ordering that it be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.