26000. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 38 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 37243.    Sample no. 42628-B.)
This case involved a product made principally from cottonseed oil, colored 
with coal-tar color, that was sold as butter.
On January 29, 1936, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 38 tubs of butter at 
Jersey City, N. J., alleging that on or about May 3 and May 4, 1934, the article 
had been delivered for shipment by the Seaboard Terminal & Refrigeration Co., 
of Jersey, City, N. J,, to the truck of Carl Ahlers, Inc., of New York, that it j 
was returned via truck of M. Rosner, by Carl Ahlers, Inc., to the said Seaboard 
Terminal & Refrigeration Co., Jersey City, N. J., on or about May 8, 1934, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that a product consisting wholly 
or in part of a hydrogenated cottonseed oil, colored with coal-tar color in a 
manner whereby damage or inferiority was concealed, had been substituted 
wholly or in part for the article.
On May 7, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.