15611.?Adulteration and misbranding of butter.    TJ. S. v. 13 Tubs of Butter.
Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   re??
leased under bond.     (F. & D. No. 22-175.    I. S. No. 21463-x.     S. No. 507.)
On or about January 28, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern?
District of New York, 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 13 tubs of butter, remaining in the original un??
broken packages at New York, N. Y., consigned by the Scandinavian Creamery?
Co., Viborg, S. Dak., January 14, 1928, alleging that the article had been?
shipped in interstate commerce from the State of South Dakota into the State?
of New York, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the?
food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that a substance?
deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to lower or?
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in whole?
or in part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale?
under the descriptive name of another article.
On February 9, 1928, the Scandinavian Creamery, of Viborg, S. Dak., claim??
ant, having admitted 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 $450, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed so as to contain at?
least 80 per cent of butterfat.
W. M. JABOINE, Secretary of Agriculture.