17326. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 11 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product  released under bond.
(F. & D. No. 24842.    I. S. No. 011699.    S. No. 2772.)
On or about January 21, 1930, the United States attorney for the District of 
Massachusetts, 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 11 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Boston, Mass., consigned on November 6, 1929, alleging that the article had 
been shipped by Armour Creameries, Louisville, Ky., and transported from the 
State of Kentucky into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration, 
in violation 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 contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of 
milk fat.
On January 27, 1930, Armour & Co., Boston, Mass., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judg- 
ment 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 be 
reworked under the-supervision of this department so as to comply with the 
Federal food and drugs act.
AKTHUE M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture.