14682. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v.  18 Boxes of Butter.    Consent de 
cree     of     condemnation     and     forfeiture.      Product   released   under 
bond.    (F. & D. No. 21177.    I. S. No. 1884-x.    S. No. C-5191.)
On June 26, 1926, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Ohio, 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 con- 
demnation of 18 boxes of butter, at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Johnson Butter Co., Terre Haute, Ind., June 22, 1926, 
and transported from the State of Indiana into the State of Ohio, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in 
part:  (Box) " From Johnson Butter Company, Terre Haute Indiana."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
product wh:ch contained less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per 
cent by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923, which the 
article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that 
the article did not contain 80 per cent of milk fat as prescribed by law.
On July 9, 1926, the Johnson Butter Co., Terre Haute, Ind., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel 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
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payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $500, conditioned in part that it be salvaged under the supervision of 
.this department, and not be sold or otherwise d sposed of contrary to law.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.