16807. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. V. S. v. 11 Tubs of Butter. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 24135.    I. S. No. 021238.     S. No. 2285.)
On September 4, 1929, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, 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 11 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Ideal 
Creamery Co., Aitkin, Minn., on or before August 23, 1929, and transported 
from the State of Minnesota into the State of New York, received on or about 
August 30, 1929, 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 with it 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 13, 1929, the Ideal Creamery Co., Aitkin, Minn., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the deposit of $350, or the execution of a bond in like 
amount, conditioned in part that it be reworked and reprocessed so that it 
contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
AETHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of. Agriculture.