16507. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 82 Cases of Butter.    Decree of con 
demnation    and   forfeiture.     Product    released   under   bond.,    (F.    &
D. No. 23846.    I. S. No. 04144.    S. No. 1796.)
On March 13, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
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 con- 
demnation of 82 cases of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Hanford 
Produce Co., from Sioux City, Iowa (on March 2, 1929), and transported from 
the State of Iowa into the State of Maryland, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Wrappers 
on individual prints) " Cloverbloom * * * Creamery Butter * * * Chi- 
cago."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance low in milk fat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, 
lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength and had been substituted 
wholly or in part for butter, a product which should contain not less than 
80 per cent by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923.
On March 30, 1929, the Armour Co., Chicago, Ill., having appeared as claimant 
for the property, 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 $2,800, con- 
ditioned in part that it should not be sold or disposed of until reconditioned 
and the resultant product inspected and approved by this department.
AKTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.