16806. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 25 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released  under   bond.
(F. & D. No. 24228.     I. S. No. 016231.     S. No. 2400.)
On September 20, 1929, 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 25 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
York Cooperative Creamery Co.. from Williamsburg, Iowa, September 9, 1929, 
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 excessive 
water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuri- 
ously 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, butterfat, had been in part abstracted from the 
article, and in that it contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On September 26, 1929, the H. C. Christians Co., 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 costs and execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, con- 
ditioned in part that it be reprocessed under the supervision of this depart- 
ment so that it contain not less than 80 per cent of milk fat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.