16463. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter.    U. S. v. 26 Tubs of Butter.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released 
under bond.     (P. & D. No. 23802.    I. S. No. 03845.    S. No. 1941.)
On April 30, 1929, 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 26 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at New York, N. Y., alleging1 that the article had beeri shipped by the Alta 
Vista Farmers Creamery Association, from Alta Vista, Iowa, on or before 
April 24, 1929, and 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 substance 
deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed with it 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 May (15, 1929, the New Hampton Farmers Creamery Association, New 
Hampton, Iowa, claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and hav- 
ing 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 $800, conditioned in part that it be reworked and reprocessed so that it 
contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HTDS, Secretary of Agriculture.