5553. Adulteration of peanut butter.    IT. S. v. 75 Cases and 100 Cases of Peanut
Butter.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.    (F. D. C. No.
10303.    Sample No. 42472-F.)
Examination of this product showed the presence of rodent hairs and rodent 
peliet fragments.
On July 26,1943, the United States attorney for the District of Montana filed a 
libel against 75 cases, each containing 24 1-pound jars, and 100 cases, each con- 
taining 12 2-pound jars, of peanut butter at Butte, Mont., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Rogers Co. from Seattle, Wash., on or about July 3, 1943; 
and charging that it was adulterated 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. The article was labeled in 
part: "School Boy Peanut Butter."
On September 24, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.