17327. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 100 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24678.    I. S. No. 037408.    S. No. 2991.)
On March 7, 1930, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
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 condemna- 
tion of 100 tubs of butter at Omaha, Nebr., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by Bassell Bros., from Temple, Tex., on or about August 3, 1929, and 
transported from the State of Texas into the State of Nebraska, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that water 
had been substituted for butterfat. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
reason that the article contained less than 80 per cent of milk fat.
On March 31, 1930, the Jerpe Cold Storage Co., Omaha, Nebr., claimant, 
saving admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented that judgment
be entered for the condemnation and forfeiture of the product, a decree was 
emered  ordering that the product be released to  the  said  claimant upon
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in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of until reworked 
as directed and approved by this department.
ABTHTJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.