16713.  Adulteration of  butter.     U.   S.  v.  310  Cubes   of  Butter.     Decree  of 
condemnation    and    forfeiture.     Product    released    under    bond.
(F. & D. No. 24017.    I, S. No. 06028.    S. No. 2102.)
On or about July 16, 1920, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of California, 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 310 cubes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Armour Creamery, from Woodward, Okla., on or about July 
1, 1929, and transported from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Cali- 
fornia, 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 product 
deficient in milk fat had been substituted for butter, which the said article 
purported to be, and in that a product containing less than 80 per cent by 
weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter, a product which should 
contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the 
act of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On July 30, 1929, Armour & Co., Chicago, Ill., 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 $8,670, con- 
ditioned in part that it should not be sold or disposed of until reworked under 
the supervision of this department and the resulting product approved.
ABTHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.
1G714.  Adultei-ation of butter.    TJ. S. v. 11 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree 
of   condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 23943.    I. S. No. 09285.    S. No. ,2168.)
On July 26, 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 con- 
demnation of 11 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Stillwater Market 
Co., from Stillwater, Minn., July 11, 1929, and transported from the State of 
Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act. 
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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 in- 
juriously 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 
aiticle, in that a valuable constituent of the article, butterfat, had been in part 
abstracted therefrom, and in that it contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On August 16, 1929, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Chicago, Ill,, 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 wasi ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant 
upon payment of costs and the execution of a good and sufiicient bond, condi- 
tioned in part that it be reprocessed, under the supervision of this department, 
so that it contain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.