16698. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 12 Tubs of Butter.    Decree of con- 
demnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond.     (F. &
D. No. 23892.    I. S. No. 08603.    S. No. 2060.)
On June 24, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of Rhode 
Island, 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 12 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Providence, R. I., consigned about June 4, 1929, alleging that 
the article had been shipped by the Bridgeman-Russell Co., Duluth, Minn., 
and transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Rhode Island,
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a substance 
containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substituted 
in whole or in part for butter, which the said article purported to be, the 
act of Congress approved March 4, 1923, providing that butter should contain 
not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat.
On July 22, 1929, the Bridgeman-Russell Co., Duluth, Minn., 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 $396, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed
. of contrary to law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.