17334. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 24 Tubs of Butter.    Consent d?eree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product   released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24827.    I. S. No. 030638.    S. No. 3083.)
On or about April 9, 1930, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seiz- 
ure and condemnation of 24 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the
A. G. Creamery Co., from Arcadia, Wis., March 24, 1930, and transported from 
thfe Stats of Wisconsin into tk? State of Illinois, 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 substance 
deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce 
and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been sub- 
stituted in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
reason that the article was deficient in butterfat, in that it contained less than 
80 per cent of butterfat.
On April 26, 1930, the Sweet Cream Butter 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 $1,000, conditioned 
in part that it be reworked under the supervision of this department.
AETHTTR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.