2477. Adulteration of apple butter.   T7. S. v. 13 Cases and 2 Cans of Apple Butter.
Default   decree   of  condemnation  and destruction.      (F.  D.   C.  No.   3754. 
Sample No. 52203-E.)
Examination showed that this product contained insect fragments and rodent 
hairs.
On February 3, 1941, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington filed a libel against 13 cases each containing 6 No. 10 cans,, and 2 
cans of apple butter at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or about January 22,1941, by Fred Meyer from Portland, Oreg.; and charging 
that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy sub- 
stance. This case was based on a return shipment of goods which originally 
had been shipped by the Pacific Food Products Co. from Seattle, Wash. The 
article was labeled in part: (Cans) "Sunny Jim Pure Apple Butter. * * * 
Mfg. by Pacific Food Products Co.   Seattle, Wash." 
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On April 24, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.