2679. Adulteration of Cheddar cheese.    XI. S. v. 100 Hoops of Cheddar Cheese  (and
S other seizure actions against Cheddar cheese). Default decrees of con- 
demnation and destruction. (P. D. C. Nos. 5677, 5880, 6023, 6968. Sample 
Nos. 17003-E, 17004-E, 22736-E to 22738-E, inel., 81646-E, 83687-E.)
Portions of this product contained rodent hairs, insect fragments, feather frag- 
ments, plant fragments, and nondescript dirt particles.
Between September 12,1941, and March 3,1942, the United States attorneys for 
the District of Arizona, District of New Mexico, District of.Nevada, and the 
Southern District of Alabama filed libels against the following quantities of 
Cheddar cheese: 100 hoops at Tucson, Ariz.; 1 hoop and 10 cases at Roswell, 
N. Mex.; 46 boxes and 9 cases at Reno, Nev.; and 13 cases at Mobile, Ala., alleging 
that the article had been shipped within the period from on or about August 22,
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1941, to on or about February 17, 1942, by Swift & Co.'from Denver, Colo., 
Amarillo, Tex., Twin Falls, Idaho, and West Point, Miss.; and charging that it 
was adulterated in that it had been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby 
it might have become contaminated with filth, and (except 1 hoop at Roswell, N. 
Mex.) in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance. Portions of 
the article labeled in part f "Brookfield Cheddar," or "Gold Crest [or "Gold Crest 
Longtiorn"] Cheddar Cheese."
Between October 17, 1941, and May 6, 1942, no claimant having appeared, judg- 
ments of condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.