17673. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 15 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24891.    I. S. No. 030652.    S. No. 3117.)
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 eent of milk fat, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On April 16, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 15 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Chicago, Ill. alleging that the article had been shipped by R. E. Cobb, from 
St. Paul, Minn., April 1, 1930, and had been transported from the State of 
Minnesota 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 was deficient in butterfat, in that it contained 
less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On August 19, 1930, the Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, 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 said claimant to be re- 
worked under the supervision of this department, upon payment of costs and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned that it should not be 
sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.