4136. Adulteration of Cheddar cheese.'   IT. S. v. 19 Boxes and 16 Boxes of Cheddar
Cheese.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D.  C.
Nos. 8252, 8848.   Sample Nos. 14216-F, 14813-F.)
On August 25 and September 8,1942, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of California filed libels against 35 boxes, each containing 5 12-pound 
Cheddar cheeses, at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about August 15 and 22, 1942, by the 
Bphraim Creamery Co., from Ephraim, Utah; and charging that it was adulter-
ated in that It consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance, and in that 
it had been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby it might have become 
contaminated with filth.
On October 29 and November 2, 1942, no claimant having appeared, judg- 
ments of condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.