12809. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. "West Salem Co-Operative Creamery
Assoc., a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $25 and  costs.     (F.
& D. No. 18354.    I. S. No. 4318-v.)
On July 21, 1924, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Wisconsin, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
West Salem Co-Operative Creamery Assoc, a corporation, West Salem, Wis., 
alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on 
or about July 11, 1923, from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, 
of a quantity of butter which was adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed that the average milk fat content of 5 samples was 78.96 per cent.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a product deficient in milk fat had been substituted for butter, which the 
article purported to be, and for the further reason that a product which con- 
tained less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for 
butter, which the said article purported to be, a product which should contain 
not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, as prescribed by the act oC 
March 4, 1923.
On August 26, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.