15762.?Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 126 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released  nnder   bond.
(F. & D. No. 22822.    I. S. No. 25783-x.    S. No. 848.)
On or about May 28, 1928, the United States attorney for the Northern Dis??
trict 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 126 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article had been shipped by the?
Keosauqua Creamery Co., Keosauqua, Iowa, May 21, 1928, and transported from?
the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in viola??
tion of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a substance,?
to wit, excessive water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce?
and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, in that a substance?
deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been substituted wholly or in?
part for the said article, in that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit,?
butterfat, had been in part abstracted therefrom, and in that it contained less?
than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On or about June 12, 1928, Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, 111., claimant, 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
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payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the?
sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed under the supervision?
of this department so that it should contain not less than 80 per cent of?
butterfat.
It. W. DXJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.