22247. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 12 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. no. 32375. 
Sample no. 59738-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter which was found to contain filth.
On January 31, 1934, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 12 tubs of butter at 
Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about October 4, 1933, by George Freezer Sons Co., from Fostoria, Ohio, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: " From the George Freezer Sons Co."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On April 23, 1934, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.