3910. Adulteration of cheese.    Ui S. v. 8 Cheeses.    Default decree of condemna¬
tion and destruction.     (F. D. C. No. 7803.    Sample No. 95132-E.)
This product contained rodent-type hairs and cheese mites.
On June .25, 1942, the United States attorney for the District of Nevada filed a 
libel against 8 cheeses at Eeno, Nev., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about June 1, 1942, by. A. Giurlani" & Bfo. from 
San Francisco, Calif.; and charging that it was adultei ated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy and putrid substance, and in that it had 
been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it might 
have become contaminated with filth. The libel alleged that it had been manu- 
factured at the plant of the Sonoma Mission Creamery, Sonoma, Calif., an in-: 
sanitary plant where the cheese had been exposed to contamination by rodents 
and cheese mites. Some of the cheeses were labeled in part: "Whole Milk 
Monterey Cheese Factory No. 681."
On July 6,rl942, no claimant having appeared; judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.