17413. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 6 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product   released  under  bond.
(P. & D. No. 24819.    I. S. No. 036378.    S. No. 3141.)
On or about May 12, 1930, the United States attorney for the Northern Dis- 
trict 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 6 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Alma 
Creamery Co., from Alma, Mo., April 24, 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 afCect 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 May 27, 1930, Hunter, Walton & 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 or- 
dered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $250, conditioned in part 
that it be reworked under the supervision of this department.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.