16280. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 13 Cubes, et al., of Butter. Consent 
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.    (F. & D. No. 23599.    I. S. No. 09."  S. No. 1815.)
On March 1.6, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for sad district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 25 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at San Francisco, Calif., consigned by the Marion Creamery & Produce Co., 
Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped from Portland, Oreg., 
March 9, 1929, and transported from the State of Oregon into the State of Cali- 
fornia, 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 product 
containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted for butter.
On March 20, 1929, Alfred Monotti, San Francisco, Calif,, having appeared as 
claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of a decree, judg- 
ment of condemnat'on 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 the execution of a bond in the sum of $700, conditioned in part that it be 
made to conform to the provisions of the Federal food and drugs act under 
the supervision of this department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.