13724. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 8 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product   released   under   bond.
(F. & D. No. 20323.    I. S. No. 30-x.    S. No. W-1750.)
On July 15, 1925, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel and subsequently 
an amended libel praying the seizure and condemnation of 8 cubes of butter, 
remaining in the original unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Hub City Creamery, from Centralia, 
Wash., July 4, 1925, and transported from the State of Washington into the 
State of California, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act.
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Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in butterfat had been substituted wholly or in part for the 
said article, and in that a valuable constituent, namely, butterfat, had been in 
part abstracted. 
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On August 5, 1925, the Hub City Creamery, Centralia, Wash., having ap- 
peared as claimant for the property 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 $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that 
it be made to conform with the provisions of the law under the supervision of 
this department.
R. TV. DUNXAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.