485. Adulteration of peanut butter.    TJ. S.-yifiSi'Cases, 49 Cases, and 85 Cases
of Peanut Butter (and 5 other seizure'actions against the same product). 
Default decrees of condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 1287, 
1293, 1294, 1383, 1432, 1474. Sample Nos. 61455-D, 61456-D, 61457-D, 61641-D, 
61642-D,  61643-D, 61795-D, 61796-D, 62001-D, 62500-D, 64956-D.)
This product contained sand and dirt. Insect fragments and excreta, rodent 
excreta, and rodent hairs .were also found in samples taken from certain lots.
Between January 5 and February 15, 1940, the United States attorneys for 
the Southern District of Mississippi, Western and Eastern Districts of Louisi- 
ana, and the Middle District of Tennessee filed libels against the following lots 
of peanut butter: 268 cases at Gulfport, Miss.; 173 cases at Shreveport, La.; 
225 cases at New Orleans, La.; and 199 cases at Nashville, Tenn. (the libel 
filed in the Middle District of Tennessee was amended on February 21, 1940), 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce within the 
period from on or about September 19 to on or about November 22, 1939, by 
J. D. Johnston, Jr., Co. from Brundidge,!, Ala.; and charging that it was adul- 
tered in that it consisted wholly or in part of a filthy substance. The article 
was labeled in part: (Jars) "Johnston's >* * * Peanut Butter * * * 
Packed by J. D. Johnston Jr., Co."; or "Sunrayed Brand Peanut Butter * * * 
Packed by Southern Foods Brundidge, Ala."
Between February 21 and March 18, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judg- 
ments of condemnation were entered and the product, with the exception of 
one lot, was ordered destroyed. The product seized at Nashville, Tenn., was 
ordered sold as feed for animals or poultry.
OLIVE OIL