13594. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 2S Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation and forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 20202.    I. S. No. 22426-v.    S. No. C-4754.)
On June 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 28 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original pack- 
ages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Park 
Falls Creamery Co., from Park Falls, Wis., June 15, 1925, and transported 
from the State of "Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, 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 
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 substi- 
tuted 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 ab- 
stracted therefrom.
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 suffi- 
cient 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. DUNXAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.