1183. Adulteration of  peanut  butter.     IT.  S.  v.  119  Cartons  of Peanut Butter.
Default decree of condenjnatlon and destruction. (F. D. C. No. 2769. 
Sample Nos. 36036-E, 36313-E.)
This product contained dirt and rodent excreta.
On September 10, 1940, the United States attorney for the District of Rhode 
Island filed a libel against 119 cartons, each containing 24 jars of peanut butter 
at Providence, R. I., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about August 3, 1940, by A. W. Sisk & Son from Norfolk, Va.; 
and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part 
of a filthy substance. The article was labeled in part: (Jars) "Melton Pure 
Peanut Butter Distributed By Brownell & Field Co. Providence."
On October 2, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.