13412. Adulteration   of   butter.      TJ.   S.   T".   36   Cubes   of   Butter.     Decree   en 
tered, adjudging- product adulterated and ordering its release 
under bond.    (F. & D. No. 19055.    I. S. No. 12291-v.    S. No. W-1538.)
On August 2, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Utah, 
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 con- 
demnation of 36 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Salt Lake City, Utah, alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
L. J. Durrant Co., from Grace, Idaho, on or about July 16, 1924, and trans- 
ported from the State of Idaho into the State of Utah, and charging adultera- 
tion in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that water 
had been substituted in part for butterfat. so as to rpdncfi and lower and in- 
juriously affect the quality and strength of the said article, and in that it con- 
tained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On November 26, 1924, the product having been theretofore released under 
bond to the claimant, L. J. Durrant & Co., Provo, to be reprocessed under the 
supervision of this department, judgment of the court was entered, finding the 
product adulterated and ordering that it be released from the operation of 
the libel.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.