16316. Adulteration of butter.     TJ.  S. v. 10  Cubes  of Butter.     Consent  de 
cree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released   tiinder 
bond.    (F. & D. No. 23608.   I. S. No. 05968.    S. No. 1832.)
On March 14, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 10 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped by W. E. 
Turner, from Seattle, Wash., March 6, 1929, and transported from the State of 
Washington into the State of California, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion 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 25, 1929, the W. E. Turner Co., Seattle, Wash., 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 the execution of a bond in the sum of $300, conditioned in 
part that it be repacked to conform with the Federal food and drugs act under 
the supervision of this department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.