16848. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. TJ. S. v. 190 Cartons, et al., 
of Butter.    Product ordered released under bond to be reworlted.
(F. & D. Nos. 24025, 24030.    I. S. Nos. 011856, 011861.    S. Nos. 2190, 2234.)
On or about August ti, 1929, and August 9, 1929, respectively, the United 
States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, acting upon reports by 
the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for 
said district libels praying seizure and condemnation of one hundred and 
ninety 32-pound cartons and 380 cases of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped
in part by the North American Creameries (Inc.), on July 12, 1929, and in part 
by the North American Creamery Co., on July 19, 1929, from one State into 
another, namely, from Paynesville, Minn, to Chicago, Ill., and charging adulter- 
ation and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel filed with respect to a portion of the article that 
it was adulterated in that excessive water had been mixed and packed there- 
with so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, 
and in that a substance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed 
wTith the said article so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality 
or strength, and had been substituted wholly or in part therefor. It was fur- 
ther alleged in the libel that the remainder of 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 de- 
ficient in milk fat and high in moisture 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 80 per cent of 
butttrfat.
Misbranding was alleged with respect to the first portion for the reason 
that it was offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article.
On September 4, 1929, the North American Creameries (Inc.) having appeared 
as claimant for the property, a decree was entered ordering that the product 
be released to the said claimant upon the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$1,000, conditioned in part that it be reworked under the supervision of this 
department so as to cause it to comply with the provisions of the Federal food 
and drugs act, and that the claimant pay costs.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agrioulture.