17347. Adulteration of  butter.    IT.   S    v.   10  Tubs   of  Butter.     Consent   decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product   released  under   bond..
(F. & D. No. 24830.    I. S. No. 037845.    S. No. 3048.)
On or about March 20, 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 seizure 
and condemnation of 10 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by A. F. 
Brockman, from Concordia, Mo., March 11, 1930, and transported from the State 
of Missouri into the 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 substituted 
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 March 21, 1930, the H. C. Christians 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 eosts and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned 
in part that it be reprocessed under the supervision of this department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.