16768. Adulteration and alleged Misbranding of butter. U. S. v. 12 Tubs 
of Butter. Consent deeree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 24130. I. S. No. 020933. 
S. No. 2313.)
On August 21, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 12 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packiges at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the ai-ticle had been shipped by'the 
Perry Milk Products Co.. from Perry. Iowa. August 9, 1929, and transported 
from the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration 
and misbranding m 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 
tat and high in mo sture had been substituted wholly or in part for the said 
article, in that a valuable constituent, butterfat. had been in part abstracted 
from the article, and in that it contained less than SO per cent of butterfat.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
under the distinctive, name of another article.
On August 30. 1929, the Perry Milk Products Co.. Perry. Iowa, claimant, 
hav.ng admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment was entered finding the product adulterated and ordering 
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 bond in the sum of $500. conditioned in part that it be 
reprocessed, under the supervision of this department, so that it contain not 
less than 80 per cent of rn^lk fat.
ARTHI R M. H^DE. Stcretatii of Agriculture.