14207. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 28 Cubes of Butter.    Product found
adulterated   and   ordered   released.     (F.   &  D.   No.   20992.    I.   S.   No. 
1132-x.    S.  No.  W-1926.)
On or about March 12, 1926, the United States attorney for the Southern 
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 praying 
seizure and condemnation of 28 cubes of butter, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Idahome Creamery Co., Preston, Idaho, on or about March 3, 
1926, and transported from the State of Idaho into the State of California, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.   -
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
product deficient in milk fat had been substituted wholly or in part for butter, 
and for the further reason that a valuable constituent, namely, milk fat, had 
been partially abstracted therefrom.
On March 26, 1926, Joseph Thorup, Los Angeles, Calif., having appeared as 
claimant for the property, and the court having found the, product to be 
adulterated, a decree was entered, ordering that it be released to the claimant
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings, and that the bond theretofore 
executed be exonerated.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.