16983. Adulteration   and   Misbranding of   cheese.     TJ.   S.   v.   20   Boxes   of
Cheese. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under boud.     (F. & D. No. 23465.    I. S. No. 01308.    S. No. 1663.)
On February 28, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of Minne- 
sota, 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 condem- 
nation of 20 boxes of cheese, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Minneapolis, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped by C. A. Linz- 
meyer, Rock Elm, Wis., January 9, 1929, and transported from the State of 
Wisconsin into the State of Minnesota, and charging adulteration and mis- 
branding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in 
part: " Factory No. 670 State of Wisconsin Department of Markets No. 1-1704."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, excessive moisture, had been mixed and packed with and substituted 
in part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the designation, " State of 
Wisconsin Department of Markets No. 1," was false and misleading and 
deceived and misled the purchaser.
On April 2, 1929, Armour & Co., South St. Paul, 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 $600, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or disposed of except to 
a grinder of cheese, to be ground under the supervision of this department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.