17744. Adulteration of cheese.    V. S. v. 19 Boxes, et al., of Cheese.     Consent
decrees of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under- 
bond. (P. & D. Nos. 24638, 24577. I. S. Nos. 033425, 033529. S. Nos. 2892, 
2989.)
Samples of cheese from the herein described interstate shipments having been 
found to contain excessive moisture, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On March 4 and March 28, 1930, respectively, the said United States attorney 
filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libel& 
praying seizure and condemnation of 144 boxes of cheese, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Chicago, III., alleging that the article had been, 
shipped by the Hubbleton Cooperative Creamery Co., from Hubbleton, Wis., in. 
part on January 12, 1930, and in part on February 26, 1930, and transported 
from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the food and drugs act. A portion of the article was labeled in 
part: "Phenix Cheese Co.   *   *   *   Chicago."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that excessive 
moisture 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 article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a substance 
deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been substituted wholly or in 
part for the article.
On October 17, 1930, the Hubbleton Cooperative Creamery Co., Hubbleton, 
Wis., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libels and having con- 
sented to the entry of decrees, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the 
said claimant to be held under the supervision of this department until the 
excess moisture had evaporated, upon payment of costs and the execution of 
bonds totaling $2,000, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or otherwise 
disposed of contrary to law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.