11719. Adulteration of butter. TJ. S. v. 35 Cases of Creamery Batter. Con- 
sent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond to be reworked and relabeled. (F. & D. No. 17597. I. 
S. No. 3318-v.    S. No. E-4429.)
On July 2, 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Georgia,; acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 35 cases of creamery butter, remaining unsold in the 
original unbroken packages at Savannah, Ga., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Cumberland Valley Creamery, from Nashville, Tenn., 
June 19, 1923, and transported from the State of Tennessee into the State 
of Georgia, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
product deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been mixed and packed 
therewith so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength 
and had been substituted wholly 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 abstracted.
On or about July 6, 1923, the Cudahy Packing Co., Inc., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment of condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the product be released to the said claimant upon the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $273, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that the claimant pay the costs of the proceedings and that the product be 
reshipped to the Cumberland Valley Creamery, Inc., Nashville, Tenn., to be 
reworked and relabeled under the supervision of this department
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.