14733. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 14 Boxes of Butter.    Consent decree
entered  ordering  product  released under  bond  to  be   reworked
(F. & D. No. 21297.    I. S. No. 2285-x.    S. No. C-5236.)
On or about August 27, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern 
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 condemnation of 14 boxes of butter, at Cleveland, Ohio, alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the A. G. Creamery Co., Arcadia, Wis., 
on or about August 5, 1926, and transported from the State of ^Wisconsin into 
the State of Ohio, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and
drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that a product 
which contained less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substi- 
tuted 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 said 
article purported to be.
On September 27, 1926, the A. G. Creamery Co., Arcadia, Wis., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of an order in conformance with the prayer of the said libel, a decree was 
entered, ordering that the product be released to the claimant upon payment 
of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$700, said decree providing further that the product be reworked under the 
supervision of this department to contain not less than 80 per cent by weight 
of milk fat.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.