3988. Misbranding of peanut butter. U. S. v. 14 Cases and 42 Cases of Peanut 
Butter. Default decree of condemnation. Product ordered distributed 
for   charitable   purposes.     (F.   D.   C.   No.   7610.      Sample   Nos.   79686-E,
79687-E.) 
On June 16, 1942, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Kentucky filed a libel against 14 cases, each containing 12 Impound jars, and 
42 cases, each containing 24 12-ounce jars, of peanut butter at Middlesboro, iky., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
"February 11 and March 16, 1942, by Dee's Foods, Inc., from Bristol, Va., and 
Bristol, Tenn.; and charging that it was misbranded. .
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' The article was alleged to be misbranded in that it was in package form and 
failed to bear labels containing accurate statements of the quantity of the con- 
tents. It was alleged to be misbranded further in that the statements on the 
labels: (Portion) "Dee's Peanut Butter * * * Contents 1 Lb. 8 Ozs." and 
(remainder) "Four Star Peanut Butter Contents 12 Oz. Net Wt.;"---'were false 
and misleading since the jars contained less than the. amounts declared.
On July 9,1942, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered distributed for charitable purposes.