13251. Action to enjoin and restrain the interstate shipment of butter.    U. S. v.
Armour & Co., operating as Armour Creameries, from Meridian, Miss. 
Consent decree granting injunction.    (Inc. No. 148.)
COMPLAINT FILED: April 10, 1947, Southern District of Mississippi, against 
Armour & Co., operating as Armour Creameries, Meridian, Miss, a corporation.
NATURE OF CHARGE : That the defendant since July 10, 1940, had been manufac- 
turing, preparing, packing, and shipping butter in interstate commerce; that 
the butter so manufactured was adulterated as follows: Sections 402 (a) (3) 
and (4), it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed 
substance, in that it contained filth in the form of insects, insect fragments, 
rodent hairs, feather fragments, maggots, animal hairs, ants, flies, weevils, 
beetles, rat pellets, cat hairs, gnats, a wad of chewed chewing gum, mosquitoes, 
and nondescript dirt, and was unfit as a food for human consumption; that 
shipments of butter by the defendants had been sampled and seized and were 
found to contain mold, resulting from the fact that it had been made from 
cream all or a substantial portion of which was decomposed, and that said 
butter so seized had also contained filth; and that despite warnings by the 
Food and Drug Administration, the defendant had failed to remedy the con- 
ditions in the method of operation in the plant and was continuously manu- 
facturing, preparing, packing, and shipping in interstate commerce adulterated 
butter; and that he would continue to ship such butter in interstate commerce, 
unless enjoined from so doing.
PRAYER OF COMPLAINT : That a preliminary injunction issue, and that, after due 
proceedings, the preliminary injunction be made permanent.
DISPOSITION: September 16, 1947. Armour & Co., operating as Armour Cream- 
eries, Meridian, Miss., having appeared and without admitting or denying the 
allegations of the complaint, having agreed to discontinue shipping in inter- 
state commerce butter which was adulterated, and having consented to the 
entry of a decree, an order was entered permanently enjoining the defendant 
from shipping in interstate commerce adulterated butter manufactured or to 
be manufactured in the Meridian, Miss., plant.
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