15382. Adulteration of  butter.     TJ.   S.  v.   10  Boxes   of  Butter.     Product   l
worked and ordered released.     (F. & D. No, 21274     I. S. No. 11031 
S. No. W-2002 )
On or about August 3, 1926, the United States attorney for the South* 
District of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricultu 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel pr, 
ing seizure and condemnation of 10 boxes of butter, remaining in the origl 
unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., allegmg that the article had b< 
shipped by the Farmers Union Cooperative Creamery, from Billings, Mont., 
or about July 15, 1926, and transported from the State of Montana into 
State of California, and charging adulteration in violation of the food 8 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Sweet Grass Cry., Big Tim! 
Mont."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that a prod 
deficient in milk fat had been substituted wholly or in part for butter, i 
in that a valuable constituent, namely, milk fat, had been partially abstrac 
from the said article.
On September 30, 1926, the Sweet Grass County Creamery and J. H. Trov 
Big Timber, Mont., having appeared as claimants for the property, and 
court having found that the product had been reworked and made to com 
with the requirements of the law, a decree was entered ordering that it 
released to the said claimants upon payment of the costs of the proceedings, , 
that the bond theretofore filed be exonerated.
R. W. DXJNLAP, Ac-ting Secretary of Agricultur