22277. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 40 Cases of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F.  & D.  no.   32007. 
Sample no. 61948-A.)
Samples of butter taken from the shipment involved in this case were found 
to contain fragments of fly bodies, wings, bristles, vegetable and nondescript 
debris, small splinters, fragments of hen feathers, rodent hairs, coal, sand, 
and a maggot.
On February 20, 1934, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 40 cases of butter at 
Arabi, La., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about February 3, 1934, by the Cloverleaf Butter Co., from Birmingham, 
Ala., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: (Carton) " Cloverleaf Brand Process Butter."
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, and putrid animal and vege- 
table substance.
On April 5, 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 by the United States marshal
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.