2333. Adulteration of butter.    TT. S. v. 30 Cases and 10 Cases of Butter.    Default
decree of forfeiture.    Product ordered sold for soap making-.     (F. D. C.
No. 5394.    Sample No. 67038-E.)
On August 7, 1941, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Illinois filed a libel against 30 cases each containing 10 pounds, and 10 cases 
each containing 30 pounds of butter at East St. Louis, Ill., alleging that the 
article had been shipped on or about August 1,1941, from Blue Valley (Beatrice 
Creamery Co.), St. Louis, Mo.; and charging that it was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole or in part of. a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance. 
The article was labeled in part: "Hunter Creamery Butter * * * Hunter 
Packing Co. East St. Louis, Ill.Distributor."
On September 23, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgment of forfeiture 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed as food, but that 
it might be sold for soap making purposes.