3496. Adulteration   and misbranding of Cheddar cheese.    U.  S.  v. 6 Boxes,  6
Boxes, and 26 Boxes of Cheddar Cheese (and 1 other seizure action 
against Cheddar cheese). Default decrees of condemnation and destruc- 
tion. (F. D. C. Nos. 7132, 7169. Sample Nos. 35128-E, 35129-E, 35135-E, 
83033-E, 83035-B, 83038-E.)
Examination showed that this product was contaminated with filth, such as cow 
hairs, insect fragments, rodent hair, plant particles, and nondescript dirt. The 
solids of portions of the cheese were deficient in milk fat.
On April 4 and 8,1942, the United States attorneys for the Northern District of 
Florida and the Southern District of Alabama filed libels against 12 boxes each 
containing 2 prints of cheese and 26 boxes each containing 1 cheese daisy at 
Pensacola, Fla., and 68 daisies of cheese at Mobile, Ala., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about March 2 and 23, 1942, by 
Armour Creameries from New Albany, Miss.; and charging that it was adulterated 
and that portions were also misbranded. It was labeled in part: "Armour's 
Cloverbloom Cheddar."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part 
of a filthy substance, and in that it had been prepared under insanitary conditions 
whereby it might have become contaminated with filth. Portions of the product 
were alleged to be adulterated further in that an article deficient in milk fat had 
been substituted wholly or in part for Cheddar cheese, which it purported to be.
The cheese found at Pensacola and a portion of that found at Mobile was alleged 
to be misbranded in that it purported to be Cheddar cheese, a food for which 
a definition and standard of identity had been prescribed by regulations as pro- 
vided by law, but it failed to conform to such definition and standard since the 
solids of the cheese contained less than 50 percent of milk fat.
On May 18 and June 29, 1942, no claimant having appeared, judgments were 
entered finding the product adulterated and ordering that the product be con- 
demned and destroyed.