16675. Adulteration of  butter.     XJ.  S.  v. H.  C.  Christians   Co.     Plea  of nolo
contendere.     Pine,   $100.     (F.   &   D.    No.   22542.     I.    S.   Nos.   13327-X, 
16309-x.)
On March 23, 1928, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the H. C. Christians Co., a corporation, trading at Chicago, Ill., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, in part on or 
about July 18, 1927, and in part on or about July 25, 1927, from the State of 
Illinois into the State of Maryland, of quantities of butter which was adulter- 
ated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
a substance purporting to be butter, but which was not butter, in that it con- 
tained .less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, had been substituted for 
butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of 
milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923.
On April 23, 1929, a plea of nolo contendere to the information was entered 
-on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.