17588. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. IT. S. v. 9 Tubs of Butter. 
Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 24954.    I. S. No. 037673.    S. No. 3254.)
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 Eastern District of Louisiana.
On or about July 2, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 9 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at New Orleans, La., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the Willow Springs Creamery Co., Springfield, Mo., on or about June 23, 1930, 
and had been transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Louisi- 
ana, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and 
drugs act.   The article- was marked on tubs: " Wilson's Clear Brook Butter."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
deficient in milk fat had been substituted for butter which the said article 
purported to be. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a prod- 
uct containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been sub- 
stituted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent 
by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923, which the said 
article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article.
On July 14, 1930, the Willow Springs Creamery Co., Springfield, Mo., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations 
of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be reworked and reconditioned in 
compliance with the requirements of the Federal food and drugs act.
ABTHTJR M. HYDE. Secretary of Agriculture.