16021. Adulteration and misbranding of butter. IT. S. v. 19 Tubs of Butter. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 23038.    I. S. No. 02934.     S. No. 1017.)
On or about July 27, 1928, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, 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 19 tubs of butter, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Golden Star Creamery Association, Bennett, Iowa, on or about July 
23, 1928, and had been transported 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 libel 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 August 8, 1928, the Golden Star Creamery Association (Inc.), Bennett, 
Iowa, claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having con- 
sented 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 $600, conditioned in part that it be reworked and 
reprocessed so as to contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
AETHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.