17574. Adulteration of butter.     V. S. v. 6 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of  condemnation  and   forfeiture.    Product   released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24882. I.S. No. 036401. S. No. 3179.)
Samples of the butter from the herein described interstate shipment having 
fceen found to contain less than the legal requirement of milk fat, namely, less 
than 80 per cent, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United 
States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On or about May 29, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 6 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Chicago, Ill. alleging that the article had been shipped by the New Albin 
Creamery Co., from New Albin, Iowa, May 14, 1930, and transported from the 
State of Iowa 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 sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
substituted in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the 
further reason that the article contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On June 3, 1930, H. C. Christians Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judg- 
ment 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 $1,000, conditioned in part that it be 
reprocessed under the supervision of this department.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.