17597k Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. IT. S. v. 179 Tubs of But- 
ter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prndnct 
released under bond.    (F.  & D. No. 24961.    I.  S. No. 03659S.    S. No.
3251.)
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 2, 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 179 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Brooklyn 
Creamery Co., from Green Lake, Wis., June 24, 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.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article had been sold,, 
shipped, and labeled as butter, which was false and misleading.
On July 10, 1930, the Brooklyn Creamery Co., Green Lake, Wis., 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, 
to be reworked under the supervision of this department, upon payment of" 
costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $5,000, conditioned in part 
th&t it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.