16906. Adulteration and alleged Misbranding of butter.    TJ. S. v. 21 Tuba
of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 24010. I. S. No. 09246. 
S. No. 2142.)
On July 22, 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 21 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Crystal 
Creamery Co., from New Albion, Iowa, July 10, 1929, and transported from the 
State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and mis- 
branding in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, 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 butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce or 
lower or injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted 
wholly or in part for the said article; and in that the article did not comply 
with the standard established by Congress.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for 
sale under the distinctive name of another article.
On August 16, 1929, the^Peter Fox & Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
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 claimant upon payment of costs and the execu- 
tion of a good and sufficient bond, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed, 
under the supervision of this department, so that it contain not less than 80 
per cent of butterfat.
R. W. DTJNXAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.