11878. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 20 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree 
of  condemnation and   forfeiture.     Product   released   under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 17656. I. S. No. 508-v. S. No. B-4454.) - 
On July 17, 1923, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
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 condemna- 
tion of 20 tubs of butter at Jersey City, N. J., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Equity Cooperative Creamery Assoc, Wadena, Minn., on or 
about July 2, 1923, and transported from the State of Minnesota into the State 
of New Jersey, 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, excessive moisture, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to re- 
duce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been 
substituted in whole or in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged 
for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butter- 
fat, had been in whole or in part abstracted.
On September 27, 1923, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., claimant, hav- 
ing admitted the allegations of the libel and 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 $500, in 
conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be shipped to 
the factory and reworked and reprocessed under the supervision of this de- 
partment.
HOWARD M. GOBE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.