16749. Misbranding of butter.    U. S. v. 42 Cases, et al., of Butter.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under 
bond.    (F. & D. No. 24015'.    I. S. No. 03720.    S. No. 2196.)
On August 2, 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 43 cases of butter at Newark, N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by Irving Sass of Newark, N. J., from the premises of J. R. Kramer (Inc.), New 
York, N. Y., on or about July 20, 1929, and transported from the State of New 
York into the State of New Jersey, and charging misbranding in violation of 
the food and drugs act as amended. The article was labeled in part: "Sass' 
Sweet Cream Butter    *    *    *   1 lb. Salt I. S."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ment on the label, " 1 lb.," was false and misleading and deceived and misled 
the purchaser, and in that it was food in package form and the quanta of the 
contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the pack- 
age, since the statement " 1 lb." was incorrect.
On August 6, 1929, Irving Sass, Newark, N. J., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to the condemnation and forfeiture 
of the product, a decree was entered ordering that the product be released to 
the said claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $350, conditioned in part that it be reprinted in full quarter-pound 
sections and packed in full 1-pound packages.
AETHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.