14550. Adulteration and misbranding of butter. IT. S. v. 5 Tubs of Butter. 
Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 21193.    I. S. No. 6354-x.    S. No. E-5807.)
On July 7, 1926, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, 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 5 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Philadelphia, Pa., consigned by the Sherburn Farm, Creamery Co., Sherburn, 
Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped from Sherburn, Minn., on or 
about June 23, 1926, and transported from the State of Minnesota into the 
State of Pennsylvania, 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 containing less than 80 per cent of butterfat had been mixed and 
packed therewith so as to reduce, lower and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength and had been substituted wholly or in part for the said article. 
Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent of 
the article, butterfat, had been wholly or in part abstracted.
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Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitation of 
or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article.
On July 8, 1926, the Almar Stores Co., Philadelphia, Pa., having appeared as 
claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entored, 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 $150, the terms of said bond requiring that the product 
be reconditioned under the supervision of this department.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.