11836. Adulteration  of butter.     U.   S.  v.  400  Tubs  of Butter.     Consent  de 
cree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released   under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 17643.    I. S. No. 373-v.    S. No. E^-4442.)
On July 12, 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 400 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
River Falls Cooperative Creamery Co., River Falls, Wis., on or about June 
20, 1923, and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State of New 
York, 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 
substance deficient in butterfat and containing excessive moisture had been 
mixed and packed with and substituted in whole or in part for butter, which 
the said article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged for the further rea- 
son that a valuable constituent of the article, butterfat, had been in whole or 
in part abstracted.
On August 15, 1923, the River Falls Cooperative Creamery Co., Inc., River 
Falls, Wis., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and con- 
sented 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 $10,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, con- 
ditioned in part that it be reprocessed under the supervision and to the satis- 
faction of this department.
HOWABD M. GOEE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.