16824. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 93 Tubs of Butter. Decree of con- 
demnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond.     (F. & D.
No. 24051.    I. S. No. 08610.    S. No. 2113.)
On or about July 22, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of 
Rhode Island, 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 93 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Providence, R. I., consigned about July 5, 1929, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the North American Creameries (Inc.), Paynesville, Minn., 
. and transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Rhode Island, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substi- 
tuted in whole or in part for butter, which the said article purported to be, the 
act of Congress approved March 4, 1923, providing that butter contain not less 
than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat.
On July 25, 1929, the North American Creameries (Inc.), Paynesville, Minn., 
having appeared as claimant for the property, 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 execution of a bond in the 
sum of $2,000, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or otherwise dis- 
posed of contrary to law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.