16717. Adulteration and alleged Misbranding of butter. TJ. S. v. 13 Tub- 
of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture* 
Product released under bond.     (F. & D. No. 23944.    I. S. No. 010218.
S. No. 2170.)
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 Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 13 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Abrams 
Creamery Co., from Coleman, Wis., July 16, 1929, and transported from the 
State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the food and drugs acts.
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 but- 
terfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce or lower or injuri- 
ously affect its quality or strength, and had been substituted wholly or in part 
for the said article, and in that the said article did not comply with the stand- 
ard established by Congress.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article.
On August 6, 1929, Gallagher Bros., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judg- 
ment was entered finding the product adulterated and otdering its condemnation, 
and forfeiture, and it was further 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; conditioned in part that it be reprocessed, under the super- 
vision of this department, so that it contain not less than 80 per cent of 
butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.