16735. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter.    TJ. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter.
Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.    Product   re- 
leased under bond.    (F. & D. No. 23946.    I. S. No. 011460.    S. No. 2172.)
On July 29, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel, and subsequently an amended 
libel, praying seizure and condemnation of 10 tubs of butter, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Minneapolis, Minn., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Rib Lake Cooperative Creamery Co., from Rib Lake, 
Wis., July 16, 1929, and transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State 
of Minnesota, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the 
food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength, and had been 
substituted wholly or in part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for 
sale under the distinctive name of another article.
On September 23, 1929, the Land O'Lakes Creameries (Inc.), Minneapolis, 
Minn., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having con- 
sented to the entry of a decree condemning and forfeiting the product judg- 
ment was entered ordering that the said product be released to the claimant 
upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, con- 
ditioned in part that it be reworked under the supervision of this department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.