18240. Adulteration of butter.     TJ. S. v. 13 Cubes, et al., of Butter.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 26424.    I. S. No. 12911.    S. No. 4227.)
Samples of butter from the shipment herein described having been found 
to contain less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the standard for butter prescribed 
by Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United 
States attorney for the Northern District of California.
On February 16, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 41 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the United Dairymen's Association, Caldwell, Idaho, on or about January 31, 
1931, and had been transported from the State of Idaho into the State of 
California, 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 product 
containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substituted 
for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent of milk 
fat.
On March 28, 1931, the Golden State Co. (Ltd.), San Francisco, Calif., having 
appeared as claimant for the property 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 upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum* of $800, conditioned 
in part that it be not sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions 
of the Federal food and drugs act or other existing laws.
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ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.