30391. Adulteration of peanut butter. U. S. v. 200 Cases of Peanut Butter (and 
1 similar seizure action). Default decrees of condemnation and de- 
struction. (F. & D. Nos. 44821, 44870, 44871. Sample Nos. 39818-D, 
51095-D, 57013-D.)
This product contained rodent hair and insect fragments.
On February 10 and 18, 1939, the United States attorney for the Western Dis- 
trict of Washington, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court two libels praying seizure and condemnation of 50 cartons and 
500 cases of peanut butter; alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about October 26, November 21, and December 3, 1938, 
from Norfolk, Va., by Southgate Foods, Inc.; and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act The article was labeled in part: "Air Flight 
*   *    *   Peanut Butter."
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted in whole or in part of a 
filthy vegetable substance.
On May 16, 1939, no claim having been made for the product, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and it was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.