11424,?Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 35 Cubes of Butter.     Decree entered
ordering release of product under bond.     (F. & D.  No. 16804.    I.  S.?
Nos. 7834-v, 7838-v.    S. No. W-1209.)
On or about September 8, 1922, the United States attorney for the Eastern?
District of Washington, 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 35 cubes of butter, remaining unsold in the?
original unbroken packages at Spokane, Wash., consigned by the Ohoteau?
Creamery, Choteau, Mont., alleging that the article had been shipped from?
Choteau, Mont, on or about August 10, 1922, and transported from the State?
of Montana into the State of Washington, and charging adulteration in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that ex??
cessive moisture had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower,?
and injuriously affect the quality thereof and had been substituted in part for?
the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that fat, a?
valuable constituent of butter, had been in part abstracted from the said?
article.
On October 13, 1922, Swift & Co. having entered an appearance as claimant?
for the property, judgment of the court was entered ordering that the product?
be released to the said claimant upon the execution of a bond in the sum of?
$250, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be?
reworked under the supervision, of this department. On December 15, 1922, it?
was further ordered by the court that the case be dismissed and that the costs?
be taxed against the claimant, Swift & Co.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.