16643. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. IT. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter. 
Default    decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.
(F. & D. No. 23953.    I. S. No. 08045.    S. No. 2115.)
On July 24, 1929, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, 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 10 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Philadelphia, Pa., consigned by the Sharon Cooperative Creamery 
Co., Le Sueur, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped from Le Sueur, 
Minn., on or about July 22, 1929, and transported from the State of Minnesota 
into the State of Pennsylvania, 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. sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed with the said article
so as to reduce, lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength and had 
been substituted wholly or in part for the article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
ander the distinctive name of another article.
On August 17, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
? that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
AKTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.