17585. Adulteration and Misbranding of Butter.    IT. S. v. 28 Tubs of Butter.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released 
under bond.    (F. & D. No. 24967.    I. S. No. 6634.    S. No. 3282.)
Samples of butter from the herein described interstate shipment having been 
found to contain less than the legal requirement of milk fat, namely, less 
than 80 per cent of milk fat, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On or about July 11, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 28 tubs of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Cuba City Creamery Co., from Cuba City, Wis., July 4, 1930, and 
transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding 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 had been substituted 
in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason 
that the article was deficient in butterfat, in that it contained less than 80 per 
cent of butterfat.
Misbfandihg Was alleged for the reason that the article had been sold, 
shipped, and labeled as butter, Which Was false and misleading.
On July 15, 1930, the H. C. Christians Co., Chieagd, Ill., 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 tb be 
reprocessed under the supervision of this department, upon payment of cbsts 
and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditibbfed in part that 
it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
ABTSUE M. HYDE, S&cf'etUry of Agriculture.