25703. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 58 Boxes of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 36766.    Sample no. 43679-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that contained mold.
On October 9, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Hampshire, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 58 boxes of butter at 
Concord, N. H., consigned about September 26, 1935, alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce by Swift & Co., from Centerville, 
Iowa, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: "Swift's Premium Quality Brookfield Butter."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance.
On November 13, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.