16847. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. TJ. S. v. 6 Tubs of Butter. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond.     (F. & D. No. 24137.    I. S. No. 021231.     S. No. 2263.)
On August 29, 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 sa d district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 6 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Backus 
Creamery Co., from Backus, Minn , on or about August 19, 1929, and transported 
from the State of Minnesota into the State of New York, and charging adultera- 
tion and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a substance 
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 art;cle.
MIsbrand ng was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article.
On September 5, 1929, the Backus Creamery Co., Backus, Minn., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfe ture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $200, conditioned in 
part that it be reworked and reprocessed so that it contain at least 80 per cent 
of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.