3 6763.  Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 34 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree 
of  condemnation  and   forfeiture.    Product   released   under bond.
(F. & D. No. 24026.    I. 8. No. 09298.    S. No. 2236.)
On August 6, 1929. the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, riled in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 34 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Chicago. III., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Platte 
Creamery Products, from Platte. S. Dak., on July 25, 1929. and transported 
from the State of South Dakota into the State of Illinois, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
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 milk 
fat and high in moisture had been substituted wholly or in part for the said 
article, 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 September 10, 1929. the Beatrice Creamery Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture wTas entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000. conditioned 
in part that it be reprocessed, under the supervision of this department, so 
that it contain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agrieuliwe.