16468. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 34 Tubs of Butter. Judgment for 
tbe Government. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 22898. 
I. S. No. 15994-x.    S. No. 935.)
On or about June 21, 1928, the United States attorney for the Northern Dis- 
trict of Illinois, 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 34 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Beatrice Cream- 
ery Co., from Dubuque, Iowa, June 13, 1928, 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 libel that the article was adulteratefl in that a substance, 
to wit, excessive water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, in that a substance deficient in 
milk fat and high in moisture had been substituted wholly or in part for the 
said article, in that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had 
been in part abstracted from the article, and in that it contained less than 80 
per cent of butterfat.
On March 23, 1929, the Beatrice Creamery Co., Chicago, Ill., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, judgment was entered in favor of the Government, 
and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant 
upon its giving due and proper security to the United States marshal, and upon 
its paying all costs including the cost of repacking and reworking the product 
under the supervision of this department so that it be made to comply with the 
requirements of the Federal food and drugs act.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.