17479. Adulteration of butter      V. 8. v.  18 Cubes  of Butter.     Consent  decree
of  condemnation and  forfeiture.    Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24974.    I. S. No. 022977.    S. No. 3200.)
Samples of butter from the herein-described interstate shipment having 
been found to be deficient in butterfat in that it "contained less than 80 per 
cent of butterfat, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the Northern District of California.
On or about June 10, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the 
District Court of the United States aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 18 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had fieen shipped by the 
Shamokawa Farmers Creamery Association, from Astoria, Oreg., on April 30, 
1930, and transported from the State of Oregon into the State of California, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: "Challenge Cream & Butter Ass'n., San Francisco, 
Calif."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted for butter.
On June 17, 1930, the Shamokawa Farmers Creamery Association, Astoria, 
Oreg., 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 $417, conditioned in part that it be made to conform with the pro- 
visions of the Federal food and drugs act under the supervision of this 
department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.