17481. Adulteration and Misbranding of cheese.     U.  S. v.  11 Boxes, et al.,
of Cheese.     Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and sale.
(F. & D. Nos. 23532, 23580. I. S. Nos. 05193, 05194, 09240. S. Nos. 1765, 
1835.)
Samples of cheese from the herein-described interstate shipments having 
been found to be low in fat and to contain excessive moisture, the Secretary 
of Agriculture reported the facts to the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Indiana.
On March 20, and April 5, 1929, respectively, the said United States attorney 
filed in the District Court of the United States aforesaid libels praying seizure 
and condemnation of 17 boxes of cheese, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at South Bend, Ind., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
H. H. Solie from Stetsonville, Wis., in two consignments on or about February 
19, 1929, and March 12, 1929, respectively, and had been transported from the 
State of Wisconsin into the State of Indiana, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled 
in part: " Colby Style Full Cream American Cheese." A portion was further 
labeled: "Wisconsin No. 1."
It was alleged in substance in the libels that the article was low in milk 
fat and contained excessive moisture and was adulterated in that moisture 
in excessive amounts had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part 
for the proper solids of said cheese. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
rea&on that milk fat, a valuable constituent of the article, had been in part 
abstracted.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the labels on the articles were 
misleading and tended to and did deceive and mislead the purchasers as to 
the quality of the said article, since it was not full cream cheese.
At the February term, 1930, of said court, no claimant having appeared for 
the property, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it 
was ordered by the court that the product be sold by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.