16041. Adulteration of tmtter.     U.  S. v. 5 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of    condemnation    and    forfeiture.       Product    released    upon    deposit 
of collateral.     (F. & D. No. 22979.    I. S. No. 02455.     S. No. 959.)
On July 10, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, 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 5 tubs of butter, consigned about June 29, 1928, alleging 
that the article had been shipped by H. C. Christians. Johnson Creek, Wis., 
and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Massachusetts, 
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 containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been sub- 
stituted in whole or in part for butter, which the article purported to be, the 
act of Congress approved March 4, 1923, providing that butter should contain 
not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat.
Om July 23, 1928, the H. C. Christians Co., Johnson Creek, Wis., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libel, 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 deposit of $300 in lieu of bond, 
conditioned in part that it be reworked so that it contain at least 80 per cent 
of butterfat.
ARTHXJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.