11737. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 17 Cubes of Buttei-.     Consent decree
of   condemnation  and   forfeiture.     Product   released  under   bond.
(F. & D. No. 17573.    I. S. No. 8013-v.    S. No. W-1389.)
On June 23, 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 17 cubes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had 
been slipped by the Blue Valley Produce Co., Portland, Oreg., June 15, 1923, 
and transported from the State of Oregon into the State of California, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: "Blue Valley Produce Co.    *    *    *    Portland, Oregon."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason tnat a 
product 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 28, 1923, the C. H. Sommer Co., claimant, 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 good and 
sufficient bond, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that the product be made to comply with the provisions of the said act.
HOWAED M. GOKE, Acting  Secretary  of  Agriculture.