4560. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 9 Cases of Butter (and 8 additional seizure
actions against butter). Decrees of condemnation: Portions of product 
ordered destroyed; portions ordered sold for non-food purposes; portions 
ordered delivered to rendering plants for use under instructions from the 
War Production Board and remainder Ordered released under bond for 
rendering: into butter oil. (F. D. C. Nos. 7597, 7973. 8285, 8M 5, 8520. 8586,' 
8624, 8665, 8928. Sample Nos. 83T72-E, 91970-B, 1509-F; 4732-F. 9191-F, 
9426-F, 9496-F, 9669-F, 9670-F, 17020-F, 18101-F.)    •
Portions of this article contained mold. The remainder contained insects, 
rodent hairs, mites, larvae, house flies, and human hair..
Between May 2 and October 20, 1942, the United States attorneys for the 
Eastern District of Louisiana, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District 
of Ohio, Western District of Louisiana, and Southern District of New York, 
filed libels against 16 cases of butter at Baton Rouge, La., 25 cases at New Orleans, 
La., 4 cases at Calumet City, Ill., 9 cases at Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 cases at Alex- 
andria, La., 15 cases at Houma, La., 72 cartons and 19 tubs of butter at New York, 
N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce within 
the period from on or about June 18 to October 5, 1942, by Swift & Co., from 
Paris, Tex., Fort Worth, Tex., Conway, Ark., Marion, Ind., and Sioux City, Iowa; 
and charging that it was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: "Swift's 
Brookfield Butter," "Creamery Butter," "Cresta Creamery Butter," Alberly 
Brand * * * Packed For The Albers Super Markets, Inc. Cincinnati," "Glen- 
wood Creamery Butter," or "Autin's Superior Brand Creamery Butter Autin 
Packing Co., Inc. Distributors, Houma, Louisiana."
A portion of the article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in 
whole or in part of a decomposed substance. The remainder was alleged to 
be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or 
decomposed substance.
On November 17, 1942j and May 17^ 1543, Swift & Co. having appeared as 
claimant for the lots located at New York, N. Y.^ Houma, La., and one of the 
llots located at New Orleans, La., and having admitted the allegations of the 
libels and consented to the entry of decrees, judgments of condemnation were 
entered and .the product was ordered released under bond for rendering into 
butter oil. Between July 2, 1942, and March 5, 1943, no claimant having ap- 
peared for the remainder of the product, judgments of condemnation were 
entered and portions were ordered destroyed, portions were, ordered sold to the 
highest bidder to be used for purposes other than as food, and portions were 
ordered delivered to packing plants to be disposed of for war purposes, under 
instructions from the War Production Board.