2361. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S. v. 288 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree of
condemnation. Product ordered released under bond to be converted 
into purified butter oil.     (F. D. C. No. 5864.     Sample No. 62256-E.)
This product contained: mold as well as rodent hairs, insects and insect 
fragments, and nondescript debris.
On August 19, 1941, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois filed a libel against 288 tubs, each containing 63 pounds, of butter 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about July 
30, 1941, by A. T. Crouch Creamery Co. from Bloomer, Ark.; and charging 
that it was adulterated." It was labeled in part: "Creamery Butter Dis- 
tributed by Dauber Bros.    *   *    *   Chicago."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance; and in that it had been 
prepared under insanitary conditions whereby it became contaminated with 
filth.
On October 6, 1941, Ozark Creamery, Ozark, Ark., and A. T. Crouch Cream- 
ery, claimants, having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and the product was ordered released under bond to 
be converted into purified butter oil under the supervision of the Food and 
Drug Administration.