13672. Adulteration of hutter.     U. S. v. 53 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product   released  tinder  bond.
(F. & D. No. 20274.     I. S. No. 1210-x.     S. No. C-4778.)
On July 10, 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 53 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original packages at 
Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Herreman Cream- 
ery Co., from Salem, S. D., July 1, 1925, and transported from the State of 
South Dakota 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 with the said article, 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, to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted from the article.
On July 17, 1925, Randack & 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 conformity 
with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed so as to 
contain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
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