23324. Adulteration of butter.     U.  S. v. 7 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 33611. Sample no. 
4880-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that was found to contain maggots, 
parts of insects, animal hairs, wood splinters, mold, and other filth.
On September 20, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of 
Maryland, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of seven tubs of 
butter at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce, on or about September 17, 1934, by J. F. Livesay, from 
Morristown, Tenn., and charging adulteration in violation of. the Food and 
Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On November 3, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.