16701. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 8 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24022.    I. S. No. 011820.    S. No. 2193.)
On July 21, 1929, 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 a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 8 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Brannon Cooperative Creamery Co., from Ogema, Wis., July IT, 1929, and trans- 
ported from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, 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 
water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and- 
injuriously affect its quality and strength, in that a substance deficient in milk 
fat and high in moisture had been substituted wholly or in part for the said 
article, in that a valuable constituent, butterfat, had been in part abstracted 
from the article, and in that it contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On August 16, 1929, Peter Fox & Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, 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 $1,000, conditioned 
in part that it be reprocessed, under the supervision of this department, so 
that it contain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.