13044. Adulteration   of   butter.     V.   S.   v.   378   Cubes   of   Butter.     Product
ordered released under bond to be reworked.     (F. & D. No.  18956. 
I. S. No. 11626-v.    S. No. W-1534.)
On or about July 22, 1924, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel pray- 
ing the seizure and condemnation of 378 cubes of butter, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., consigned by the Caldwell 
Creamery Co., Caldwell, Idaho, alleging that the article had been shipped 
from Caldwell, Idaho, on or about June 30, 1924, and transported from the 
State of Idaho into the State of California, 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. 
product deficient in milk fat had been substituted wholly or in part for butter, 
and for the further reason that a valuable constituent, milk fat, had been 
in part abstracted therefrom.
On September 18, 1924, the Caldwell Creamery Co., Caldwell, Idaho, having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having executed a bond in the 
sum of $1,400, conditioned that the product be reworked to bring it into com- 
pliance with the law, a decree of the court was entered, ordering that the 
product be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the 
proceedings.
W. M. JARDINB, Secretary of Agriculture.