17416. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v.  Wisconsin Creamery Co.    Plea of
guilty.    Fine, ?50.     (F. & D. No. 23764.    I. S. No. 020552.)
On February 4, 1930, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Wisconsin, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Wisconsin Creamery Co., a corporation, Sauk City, Wis., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about August 6, 1929, 
from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of butter 
which was adulterated.
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 should contain not less than 80 per cent 
by weight of milk fat as defined and required by the act of Congress of March 
4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On February 4, 1930, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.