7550. Adulteration and misbranding of butter. U. S. * * * v. 40 Tubs of 
Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product 
ordered released  on bond.     (F.  & D. No.  10827.     I. S.  No.  15."i41-i\     S.
No. E-1648.)
On July 11, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation 
of 40 tubs, each containing 62 pounds of butter, consigned on or about June 20, 
1919, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the H. C. Christians Co., Chicago,
111., and transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Maryland, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a sub- 
stance, to wit, excessive water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and that a sub- 
stance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been substituted wholly 
or in part for the article, and for the further reason that a valuable constituent 
thereof, to wit, butter fat, had been in part abstracted.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was an imitation 
of, and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of, another article.
On August 29, 1919, Arthur Medwedeff, Baltimore, Md., claimant, having con- 
sented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it 
was ordered by the court that the product be delivered to said claimant upon 
the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that 
the article be reworked so as to reduce the moisture thereof, under the supervi- 
sion of this department.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.