13592.   Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 13 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree 
of   condemnation  and   forfeiture.     Product   released   under   bond.
(F. & D. No. 20259.    I. S. No. 22451-v.    S. No. C-4759.)
On June 30, 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 13 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Bode Creamery Co., from Bode, Iowa, June 19, 1925, and transported from 
the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that exces- 
sive 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 there- 
from, and for the further reason that it contained less than 80 per cent of 
butterfat.
On July 13, 1925, Peter Fox & Sons 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 good and suf- 
ficient bond, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that it be reprocessed under the supervision of this department so as to contain 
not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.