11659.?Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v.  103 Tubs  of Butter.     Consent de?
cree  of condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under?
bond.     (F. & D. No. 17594.    I. S. No. 4275-v.    S. No. C-4060.)
On July 2, 1923, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretai-y of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure?
and condemnation of 103 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original tubs?
at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Butternut?
Cooperative Creamery Co., from Butternut, Wis., June 20, 1923, and transported?
from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging adultera??
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a?
substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been mixed and?
packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality?
and strength and had been substituted in whole or in part for the said article.?
Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent of?
the said article, to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted therefrom.
On July 7, 1923, the Butternut Cooperative Creamery Assoc, Butternut,?
Wis., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to?
the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered,?
and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said?
claimant upon payment Of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a?
bond in the snm of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned?
in part that it be reprocessed under the supervision of this department.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.