18413. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S. v. 1  Car of Butter.    Consent decree 
of  condemnation and forfeiture.    Product  released under bond.
(F. & D. No. 25259.    I. S. No. 6062.    S. No. 3370.)
Samples of butter from the shipment herein described having been found 
to fall below the standard provided by act of Congress, namely, to contain 
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 August 19, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of one car of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Sugar Creek Creameries, Danville, Ill., on or about August 4, 1930, and had 
been transported from the State of Illinois into the State of Ohio, 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 
deficient in milk fat had been substituted for butter which the said article 
purported to be, and in that it contained less than 80 per cent by weight of 
milk fat.
On October 14, 1930, the De Coursey Cream Co., Wichita, Kans., 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 
for salvaging under the supervision of this department, upon payment of costs 
and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it 
should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
AETHXJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.