13500. Adulteration of butter. TT. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree 
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product   released  under  bond.
(P. & D. No. 20200.    I. S. No. 22430-v.    S. No. C-4758.)
On June 25, 1925, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 10 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original pack- 
ages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Wacousta 
Creamery Co., from Ottosen, "Iowa, June 19, 1925, 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 ex- 
cessive 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 valuable 
constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted there- 
from.
On July 10, 1925, F. Holle & Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to 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 con- 
formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed 
under the supervision of this department, so that it contain not less than 80 
per cent of butterfat.
It. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.