15869. Adulteration and misbranding of butter. TJ. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter. 
Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released nuder 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 22915.    I. S. No. 03151.    S. No. 942.)
On July 6, 1928, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, 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 10 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Philadelphia, Pa., consigned by the Central Minn. Prod. Co., Willmar, Minn., 
alleging that the article had been shipped from Willmar, Minn., on or about 
June 30, 1928, and transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of 
Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the 
food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a sub- 
stance containing less than 80 per cent of butterfat had been mixed and packed 
therewith so as to reduce, lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength 
and had been substituted wholly or in part for the said article. Adulteration 
was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, 
butterfat, had been wholly or in part abstracted.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitation 
of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article.
On July 7, 1928, John S. Morris & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., having appeared as 
claimant for the property, 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 $500, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or 
otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.