16748. Misbranding of butter. U. S. v. Six 30-Pound Cases of Butter. Con- 
sent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond.     (P. & D. No. 24047.    I. S. No. 021079.    S. No. 2262.)
On August 23, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey, 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 six 30-pound cases of butter at Paterson, N. J., alleging 
that the article had been transported in interstate commerce from the premises 
of the C. & P. Butter Printing Co., New York, N. Y., to the premises of M. Klahr, 
Paterson, N. J., on or about August 19, 1929, and charging misbranding in 
violation of the food and drugs act as amended. The article was labeled in 
part: "One Pound Net Weight Valley Farm Print Butter M. Klahr & Co., 
Distributors, Paterson, New Jersey."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the 
statement on the label, " Net Weight One Pound," was false and misleading 
and deceived and misled the purchaser, and in that it was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked 
on the outside of the package, since the statement " Net Weight One Pound " 
was incorrect.
On September 9, 1929, M. Klahr, Paterson, N. J., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree con- 
demning and forfeiting the product, judgment was entered ordering that the
said product be released to the claimant upon payment of costs and the execu- 
tion of a bond in the sum of $100, conditioned in part that it be reprinted 
into full quarter-pound sections, and packed in full 1-pound packages.
AKTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.