] 1843.  Adulteration and misbranding- of Butter.     U. S. v. Morris Honiltman 
(Honikman's Creamery).    Plea of guilty.     Fine, $25.     (P.  & D.  No.
16928.    I. S. No. 8150-t.)
On April 5, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Morris Honikman, trading as Honikman's Creamery, Philadelphia, Pa., alleging 
shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or 
about June 6, 1922, from the State of Pennsylvania into the State of New 
Jersey, of a quantity of butter which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained excessive water and was deficient in fat.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed with the said article 
so as to lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality, for the further 
reason that a substance, to wit, added water, had been substituted in whole 
or in part for butter, which the article purported to be, and for the further 
reason that a valuable constituent of the said article, to wit, butterfat, had 
been in whole or in part abstracted.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was a mixture 
which contained an excessive amount of water, prepared in imitation of butter, 
and was offered for sale and sold under the distinctive name of another article, 
to wit, butter.
On September 18, 1923, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the infor- 
mation, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.