13658. Adulteration  and  misbranding:  of butter.     U.  S. v.  11  Tubs  and  11
Tubs of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 20263. I. S. No. 22418-v. 
S. No. E-5419.)
On July 3, 1925, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New 
York, 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 22 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Brdahl Creamery Co., Brdahl, Minn., on or about June 23, 1925, and trans- 
ported 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 sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce, lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength and had been sub- 
stituted 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 25, 1925, Edward Gulsvig, trading as Erdahl Creamery Co., Erdahl. 
Minn., having appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of con- 
demnation 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 $600, in conformity with 
section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be reworked under the super- 
vision of this department so as to contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.