17723. Adulteration of   butter.    IT.    S.   v.    Sunlight   Creameries.    Plea   of
guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 25038.    I. S. Nos. 030449, 030592.)
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 Southern District of Ohio.
On November 20, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against 
the Sunlight Creameries, a corporation, trading at Washington Court House, 
Ohio, alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, 
on or about March 18, 1930, from the State of Ohio into the State of Florida, of 
a quantity of butter which was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: 
?" Sunlight Creamery Butter."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
substance containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 per cent
by weight of milk fat, as required by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, 
which the article purported to be.
On November 29, 1930, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
""behalf of the defendant company,, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.