13644. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.    U. S. v. 7 Tubs of Butter.
Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   re- 
leased  under  bond.     (F.   &  D.  No.   20276.     I.   S.   No.  7078-x.     S.   No.
Er-5425.)
On July 10, 1925. the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 7 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Watson Cooperative Creamery Co., Watson, Minn., on or about July 1, 1925, 
and transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of New York, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in butterfat and containing excessive moisture had been 
mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, or injuriously affect its 
quality or strength and had been substituted in whole or in, part for, the said 
article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article.
On July 20, 1925, the Minnesota Co-Operative Creameries Assoc, Inc., 
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 $250, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned 
in part that it be reworked under the supervision of this department so as to 
contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
R. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.