23089. Adulteration and misbranding of butter. U. S. v. 17 Cases of Butter. 
Default   decree   of   condemnation   and   destruction.      (F.   &   D.   no.
33316.    Sample no. 6256-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that contained filth, and that was 
not labeled to show the quantity of the contents.
On or about July 21, 1934, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 17 cases 
of butter at Jacksonville, Fla., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, on or about July 7, 1934, by the Murray Milk Products 
Co., from Union City, Tenn., and charging misbranding in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act as amended. Subsequently an amendment to the libel 
was filed charging that the article was also adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in part of a 
filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
Misbranding was alleged in that the article was food in package form and 
did not bear a statement of the quantity of the contents plainly and con- 
spicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On August 15, 1934, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.