15852. Adulteration   of  butter.     TX.   S.  v.   71  Tubs   of   Butter.     Consent   decree
of   condemnation  and   forfeiture.     Product released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 22849.    I. S. No. 25789-x.    S. No. 874-.)
On June 4, 1928, 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 71 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Globe Cream- 
ery Co., from Iowa City, Iowa, May 29, 1928, and transported from the State 
of Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, 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 
the said article contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.   
On June 8, 1928, Gallagher Bros., Chicago, Ill., 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 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 as to contain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.