13310. Adulteration of butter.     TJ. S. v. 26 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond 
to be reprocessed. (F. & D. No. 19872. I. S. No. 23142-v. S. No. 
C-4664.)
On February 20, 1925, 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 26 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Nelson Creamery Co., from Nelson, Wis., February 14, 1925, and transported 
from the State of Wisconsin 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 a 
substance, to wit, excessive 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, for the further 
reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, .had been 
in part abstracted therefrom, and for the further reason that it contained 
less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On March 6, 1925, the Nelson Creamery Co., Nelson, Wis., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented 10 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 $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that it be reprocessed under the supervision of this department, so as to con- 
tain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
R. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.