12463. Adulteration of butter.     IT. S. -v. 97 Barrels, More or Less, of Pack¬
ing Stock Butter. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond to be reprocessed. (F. & D. No. 18159. 
I. S. No. 599-v.    S. No. E-^618.)
On December 13, 1923, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and 
condemnation of 97 barrels, more or less, of packing stock butter, at Jersey 
City, N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Central Produce 
Co., Temple, Texas, on or about June 6, 1923, and that a certain quantity of 
the product had been added en route by the consignee at Dallas, Texas, and 
that the product had been transported from the State of Texas 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 it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal sub- 
stance.
On February 20, 1924, Fred D. Oetjen having appeared as claimant for the 
property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be shipped to Middletown, Md., to be 
reconditioned. Subsequently an amended decree was entered, providing 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 $8,000, in conformity 
with section 10 of the act, conditioned that the product be examined by a rep- 
resentative of this department and such portion as was fit for manufacture into 
renovated butter be shipped to Kansas City, Mo., the product to be again ex- 
amined by this department and the good portion released for food purposes 
and the bad portion destroyed.
HOWARD M. GOEE, Secretary of Agriculture.