15230. Adulteration and alleged Misbranding of butter.    TJ. S. v. 106 Tubs
of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 21974. I. S. No. 19532-x, 
S. No. C-5483.)
On June 28, 1927, 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 106 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Portage 
Cooperative Creamery, from Portage, Wis., June 22, 1927, and transported from 
the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
tained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked 
on the outside of the package in terms of weight or measure.
On July 1, 1927, the Peter Fox Sons Co, Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of the court was entered, finding the product adulterated and 
ordering its condemnation and forfeiture, and it was further ordered by the 
court that the said product be released to the claimant upon payment of the 
costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 'the sum of $1,000, condi- 
tioned in part that the adulterated portion be reprocessed under the supervision 
of this department so as to contain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.