14360. Adulteration and misbranding of butter. U. S. v. 26 Tubs of Butter. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased   under   bond.     (F.   &   D.   No.   21158.    I.   S.   No.   8162-x.    S.   No.
E-5742.)
On June 21, 1926, 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 seizure and 
condemnation of 26 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Farmers- 
Creamery, Garber, Iowa, on or about June 10, 1926, and transported from 
the State of Iowa 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 had been mixed and packed therewith so as 
to reduce or lower or, injuriously affect its quality or strength and had been 
substituted wholly 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 7, 1926, the Farmers Creamery Co., Garber, Iowa, claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree and to recondition the product so that it would contain at least SO per 
cent of butterfat, 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 $1,300, conditioned in part that it be reworked and reprocessed 
so that it would comply with the law.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.