16663. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. IS Tubs of Butter. Consent decree 
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 23690.    I. S. No. 03853.    S. No. 1952.)
On May 6, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
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 18 tubs of butter at Newark, N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Alta Vista Farmers Creamery Association, from Alta Vista, Iowa, on 
or about May 1, 1929, and transported from the State of Iowa into the State 
of New Jersey, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that excessive 
moisture had been mixed and packed with the said article, and had been sub- 
stituted in part for butterfat in which it was deficient. Adulteration was alleged 
for the further reason that a valuable constituent, milk fat, had been in part 
abstracted from the article.
On June 12, 1929, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Newark, N. J., claim- 
ant, 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 $525, con- 
ditioned in part that it be reworked and reprocessed so that it comply with 
the requirements of the law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.