16291. Adulteration of butter. TJ. S. v. 14 Tubs, et al., of Butter. Consent decrees of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. Nos. 23614, 23615. I. S. Nos. 05182, 05183. S. Nos. 1653, . 1685.) On February 13, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for. said district libels praying seizure and con- demnation of 27 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original packages at Chicago, III., alleging that the* article had been shipped by the Lineville Creamery Co., from Lineville, Iowa, February 2, 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 libels that the article was adulterated in that a substance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, for the further reason that a substance deficient in butterfat (or milk fat) and high in moisture had been substituted wholly or in part for the said article, for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted from the article, and for the further reason that it contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat. On February 13, 1929, and February 16, 1929, respectively, the Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., 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 costs and the execution of bonds totaling $2,000, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed to remove the excess water and raise the butterfat content to 80 per cent. / ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture, i