14699. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 9 Tubs ol Batter.     Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product  released  under  bond
(F. & D. No. 21180.    I. S. No. 14035-x.    S. No. C-5183.) 
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On June 28, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, 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 9 tubs of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the A. G. Creamery Co., from Arcadia, Wis., June 17, 1926, and trans- 
ported from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that 
excessive water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and 
lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, for the further reason 
that a substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the said article, for the further reason that 
a valuable constituent, butterfat, had been in part abstracted therefrom, 
and for the further reason that it contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On August 31, 1926, Leserman Bros., Chicago. Ill., claimant, having ad- 
mitted 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 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed under the 
supervision of this department so as to contain not less than 80 per cent 
of butterfat and not more than 16 per cent of water.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.