17015. Adulteration of butter.    XT.  S.  v.   17 Tubs   of  Butter.    Consent  decree 
of  condemnation  and forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24565.    I. S. No. 011588.    S. No. 2777.)
On or about January 22, 1930, the United States attorney for the District of 
Massachusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the Distr ct Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 17 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., consigned about January 8, 1930, a.leging that the 
article had been shipped by Armour & Co., Chicago, Ill., and transported from 
the State of Illinois into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration 
in volation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted for butter, 
which the said article purported to be, the act of Congress approved March 
4, 1923, providing that butter should contain not less than 80 per cent by weight 
of milk fat.
On January 27, 1930, Armour & Co., Chicago, Ill. claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, 
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 $900, conditioned in part that 
it be reworked under the supervision of this department, so that it comply with 
the requirements of the Federal food and drugs act.
AETHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.    {