6396. Adulteration of peanut butter. IT. Serv. 84 Cases of Peanut Butter. De- fault decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. No. 9799. Sam- ple No.32655-F.) Oh April 14, 1943, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee filed a libel against 84 cases, each containing 24 jars, of peanut butter at Etowah, Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- merce on of about January 12 and 14, 1943, by the Rainer Packing Co. from Montgomery, Ala.;, and charging that it was adulterated in that the product consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid or decomposed substance, rodent hair fragments and rodent excreta fragments, or was otherwise unfit for food. The article was labeled in part: (Jars) "Brownee Peanut Butter * * * Brownee Company *.'*'. * Montgomery, Ala." On July 6, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.