16705. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 17 Tubs, et al., of Butter.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 24014.    I. S. No. 05264.    S. No. 2232.)
On August 6, 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 35 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Millville 
Creamery Co., from Millville, Minn., July 27, 1929, and transported from the 
State of Minnesota 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 27, 1929, Spangenberg & Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having ad- 
mitted 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 $500, 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.
AETHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.