15302. Adulteration  and  alleged  Misbranding of butter.     V.  S. -v.  81  Tubs
of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
uct released under bond. (F. & D. No. 22000. I. S. No. 19359-x. S. 
No. 27.)
On July 9, 1927, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 81 tubs' of butter, remaining unsold in the original packages 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Sanitary 
Parm Dairy from St. Paul, Minn., July 5, 1927, and transported from the State 
of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and mis- 
branding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as 
to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
substituted in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
?reason that the article was deficient in butterfat, in that it contained less than 
80 per cent of butterfat.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was in package form 
I 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 17, 1927, the H< O. Christians Co.} Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment 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 pro- 
ceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part 
that it be reprocessed so that it contain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.