22464. Adulteration of  butter.     U.   S.   v.   1  Tub  of  Packing:   Stock  Butter.
Default   decree    of   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   no.    32643.    Sample   no. 
69045-A.)
A sample of butter taken from the shipment involved in this case was found 
to contain filth.
On March 24, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one tub of packing- 
stock butter at Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about March 8, 1934, by the Checotah Creamery 
Co., from Checotah, Okla., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act.
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 June 27, 1934, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
was entered finding the product adulterated and ordering that it be destroyed 
by the United States marshal.
M. Li. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,