3706. Adulteration and misbranding of cheese.     U. S.   v. 19 and 26 Longhorn
Cheeses.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D. C.
Nos. 7344, 7404.    Sample Nos. 80067-B, 80074-E.)
This product was contaminated with rodent hairs; and one shipment was 
deficient in milk fat.
On April 15 and 27,1942, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Ohio filed libels against 45 longhorn cheeses at Cincinnati, Ohio, which had. 
been consigned on or about March 30 and April 20, 1942, alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce by the Kyle Ore Emery Association 
from Aurora, Ind.; and charging that it was adulterated and that a portion 
was also misbranded.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy substance, and in that it had been prepared under insanitary 
conditions whereby it might have been contaminated with filth. A portion was 
alleged to be adulterated further in that a product deficient in milk fat had 
been substituted wholly or in part for longhorn whole milk cheese, which it 
purported to be.
The said portion was alleged to be misbranded in that it purported to be 
cheese, a food for which a definition and standard of identity had been designated 
by regulations as prescribed by law, but it failed to conform to such definition 
and standard because its solids contained less than 50 percent of milk fat.
On May 21 and June 11, 1942 no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.