17188. Misbranding of butter.     U. S. v. 10 Cases of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction. (F. & D. No. 24677. 
I. S. No. 028909.    S. No. 2962.)
On March 3, 1930, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the D'strict Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 
10 cases of butter at Newark, N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the June Dairy Products Co. (Inc.), New York, N. Y., in part on or about 
February 18, 1930, and in part on or about February 24, 1930, and transported 
from the State of New York into the State of New Jersey, and charging mis- 
branding in violation of the food and drugs act as amended. The article was 
labled in part: " June Dairy Sweet Fancy Print Butter One Pound Net We'ght."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ment on the label, " One Pound Net Weight," was false and misleading and 
deceived and misled the purchaser; and in that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked 
on the outside of the package, since the statement " One Pound Net Weight" was 
incorrect.
On April 9, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
(hat the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.