21299. Adulteration of apple  butter.    U.   S.  v.  285  Cases  of Apple Butter.
Default    decree    of   destruction.     (F.    &   D.   no.    30362.    Sample   no. 
27146-A.)
This case involved a shipment of apple butter that was contaminated with 
rodent hairs and insects.
On April 26, 1933, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Kentucky, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 285 cases of apple 
butter at Lexington, Ky., consigned by the C. H. Musselman Co., from Biglerville, 
Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about March 1, 1933, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Pleasure Brand * * * Apple 
Butter."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that the product 
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy vegetable substance.
On July 25, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, a decree was 
entered adjudging the product to be adulterated, and it was ordered by the court 
that it be destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.