9014. Adulteration of butter.   XT. S.   *   *   *   v. 340 Tubs   *   *   *   of Butter.   Consent de¬
cree of condemnation and forfeiture.   Product released under bond.    (F. & D. No.
10902.   I. S. No. 7728-r.   S. No. C-1394.)
On August 2, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New 
York, 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 340 
tubs, more or less, of butter, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at 
Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by H. A. Ertz Co., St. 
Paul, Minn., on or about July 31, 1919, and transported from the State of Minnesota 
into the .State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason that 
an excessive amount of water had been mixed and packed with the butter; for the 
further reason that a product deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been 
substituted wholly and in part for the article; and for the further reason that a valuable 
constituent, to wit, butter fat, had been [in part] abstracted.
On September 28, 1919, H. A. Ertz Co., St. Paul, Minn., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and 
forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released 
to said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings, and the execution of 
a bond in the sum of $5,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.