17371. Adulteration of   butter.    U.   S.   v.   Sberman   White   &   Co.     Plea   of
?uilty.     Fine,   $150.     (F.   &   D.   No.   23738.     I.   S.   Nos.   05793,   24014-x, 
24015-x, 24016-x.)
On August 10, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Indiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Sherman White & Co.. a corporation. Fort Wayne, Ind., alleging shipment 
by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, from the State of 
Indiana, in part on or about June 14, 1928, into the State of New York, and in 
part on or about February 28, 1929, into the State of Massachusetts, of quan- 
tities of butter which was adulterated. A portion of the article was labeled 
in part: " White Cross Creamery Butter * * * Manufactured by Sherman 
White & Company."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
a substance containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 per cent
by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, 
which the said article purported to be. 
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On May 13. 1930, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf ' 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $150.
ABTHUB M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture.