17502. Adulteration of Butter.     U. S. v. 26 Tubs of Butter.     Decree of con 
demnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond.     (F. & D.
No. 23863.    I. S. No. 03449.    S. No. 2031.)
Samples of butter from the herein-described interstate shipment having been 
found to be deficient in butterfat, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the District of Maryland.
On June 11, 1929, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 
26 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., 
alleging that the article had been shipped from the Exchange Creamery, 
v Charles Town, W. Va., and had been transported from the State of West 
? Virginia into the State of Maryland, 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 
low in milk fat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, or 
injuriously affect its quality or strength and had been substituted wholly or in 
part for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent by 
weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923.
On June 14, 1929, the Exchange Creamery, Charles Town, W. Va., having 
appeared as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
released to the said claimant, to be reconditioned so that it contain at least 80 
per cent milk fat, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $1,200, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or disposed of 
contrary to the law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.