6S77. Adulteration and misbranding: of butter. U. S * * * v. Philip?
Colien. Collateral of $25 forfeited. (F. &
' D. No. 9347. I. H. No.?
4072-p.)
On August 25, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Police Court?
Of said District an information against Philip Cohen, Washington, D. C,?
alleging that said defendant did offer for sale and sell at the district aforesaid^?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on June 14,1918, a quantity of creamery?
butter which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was not labeled?
but was sold as creamery butter.'
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department indicated by the spoon test that the product was renovated butter.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
a product, to wit, renovated or process butter, had been substituted in whole?
or in part for creamery butter, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was a product?
composed in whole or in part of renovated or process butter, and wTas offered?
for sale and sold under the distinctive name of another article,.to wit, creamery?
butter.
On August 25, 1919, the defendant having failed to appear, the collateral?
of $25 that had theretofore been deposited by him to insure his appearance was?
forfeited by the court.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.