12661. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 40 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released tinder bond 
to   be   reprocessed.     (F.   &   D.   No.   18826.    I.   S.   No.   17960-v.    S.   No.
C-4428.)
On June 25, 1924, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 40 tubs of butter, at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Casey Creamery Co., from Casey, Iowa, June 19, 
1924, and transported from the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that exces- 
sive water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, for the further reason that a 
substance deficient in milk fat and high in. moisture had been substituted 
wholly or in part for the said article, and for the further reason that a valu- 
able constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted 
therefrom.
On July 9, 1924, J. H. Hoar & Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judg- 
ment 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 $1,000, in 
conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed 
under the supervision of this department so that it should contain not less 
than 80 per cent of milk fat and not more than 16 per cent of water.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.