2331. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 6 Cases of Butter.    Default decree of for¬
feiture and destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 5395.    Sample No. 67124-E.)
This product was found to contain mold; and, in addition, one case was also 
deficient in milk fat.
On August 8, 1941, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Illinois filed a libel against 6 cases, each containing approximately 30 pounds, 
of butter at East St. Louis, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about August 4, 1941, by Aro Creamery Co. from 
St. Louis, Mo.; and charging that it was adulterated. It was labeled in part: 
(Cartons) "Sale Packing Co- Brand Butter * * * . Packed for Sale Packing 
Co. E. St. Louis, Ill."; or "Nation-Wide * * * Butter Packed for Nation- 
wide Stores Co., St. Louis, Mo."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance. One case of the article was 
alleged to be. adulterated further in that a valuable constituent, milk fat, had 
been in whole or in part- omitted or abstracted therefrom; and in that an 
article containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted wholly or in part for butter.
On September 12, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgment of forfeiture 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.