17506. Adulteration and Misbranding of" butter. IT. S. v. 8 Tubs of Butter. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond.    (F. & D. No. 24968.    I. S. No. 7196.    S. No. 3310.)
Samples of butter from the herein described interstate shipment having been 
found to contain less than the legal requirement of milk fat, namely, fess
than 80 per cent of milk fat, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United Stated attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On or about July 24,1930, 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 8 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Mon- 
mouth Creamery Co., from Monmouth, Iowa, July 14, 1930, and transported 
from the State of Iowa 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 Substance 
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.
Misbranding was alleged for the reasoh that the article had been sold, shipped, 
and labeled as butter, which was false and misleading.
On July 29, 1930, the Peter frox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having ad- 
mitted 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, to be 
reworked uhder the supervision of this department, upon payment of costs and 
the executioh of & bohd in the sum of $500, Conditioned in part that it should 
not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
ABTSUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.