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.