11728. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 46 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product   released  under  bond. 
(F. & D. No. 17563.    I. S. No. 8011-v.    S. No. W-1387.)
On June 20, 1923, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, 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 46 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by W. E. Turner, from Seattle, Wash., June 9, 1923, and transported from the 
State of Washington into the State of California, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " W. E. 
Turner    *    *    *    Seattle, Wash."
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 
with and substituted wholly or in part for the said article. Adulteration was 
alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent, butterfat, had been 
abstracted from the said article.
On July 17, 1923, the Makins Produce Co., Seattle, Wash., having appeared 
as claimant for the property and having 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 sum of $1,700, in 
conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be made to con- 
form with the provisions of the said act, under the supervision of this depart- 
ment.
HOWAKD M. GOEE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.