15926. Adulteration  and  misbranding  of  butter.     V.  S.  v.  34  Tubs  and  33
Tubs of Butter*. Consent decrees of condemnation and forfelttire. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. Nos. 22910, 22913. I. S. Nos. 
02828, 02829.    S. Nos. 948, 951.)
On July 9, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New 
York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district libels praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of 67 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at New 
York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Charles City 
Creamery Co., from Charles City, Iowa, on or about June 27, 1928, and trans- 
ported from the State of Iowa into the State of New York, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength and had been 
substituted wholly or in part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article.
On July 25, 1928, the Lawler Cooperative Creamery Assoc, Lawler, Iowa, 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libels and having consented to 
the entry of decrees, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were 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 bonds totaling 
$2,000, conditioned in part that it be reworked and reprocessed so as to contain 
at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.