14586. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 15 Cubes of Butter.    Default decree
of  forfeiture   entered.     Product   delivered   to   charitable   institu- 
tion.     (F. & D. No. 20924.     I. S. No. 527-x.    S. No. W-1910.)
On February 23, 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 15 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Gooding Cooperative Creamery, Gooding, Idaho, on or about February 11, 
1926, and transported from the State of Idaho into the State of California, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: "From GCC Co. Gooding."
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 in that a valuable constituent, namely, milk fat, had been partially ab- 
stracted therefrom.
On July 29, 1926, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was, ordered by the court 
that the product be delivered to a charitable institution.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.