20613. Adulteration of butter.   U. S. v. Pickerington Creamery, Inc., and Arthur
J.  Good.   Pleas  of guilty.   Fine  of  $5,000  against  each  defendant.
(F. D. C No. 34818.    Sample Nos. 35952-L, 35953-L, 35963-L to 35965-L, 
incl.) 
INDICTMENT RETURNED :   June 16,1953, Southern District of Ohio, against Pick- 
erington Creamery, Inc., Pickerington, Ohio, and Arthur J. Good, president and 
general manager of the corporation.
ALLEGED VIOLATION : On or about February 14, 1949, the defendants gave to a 
firm engaged in the business of shipping butter in interstate commerce a 
guaranty to the effect that the article comprising each shipment or other de- 
livery made by the defendants to the holder of the guaranty would be neither 
adulterated nor misbranded within the meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act.
On or about August 12 and 18 and September 2, 1952, the defendants caused 
to be shipped and delivered to the holder of the guaranty, at Cleveland, Ohio, a 
number of boxes of adulterated butter.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the article consisted 
in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of insect fragments, 
plant fragments, rodent hair fragments, fly setae, moth scales, and mites, and 
by reason of the use of filthy and decomposed cream in the preparation of the 
article.
DISPOSITION : December 15,1953. The defendants having entered pleas of guilty, 
the court fined each defendant $5,000.