18663. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 66 Cases  of Butter.    Consent de 
cree  of condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product  released  under- 
bond.    (F. & D. No. 26426.    I. S. No. 11498.    S. No. 4447.)
Samples of butter from the shipment herein described having been found to 
contain less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, the standard provided 
by Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United 
States attorney for the Northern District of California.
On March 13, 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 56 cases of butter, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at San Francisco, Calif., consigned by the Klamath Falls Creamery, Kla- 
math Falls, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped from Klamath 
Falls, Oreg., on or about March 2, 1931, and had been transported from the 
State of Oregon into the State of California, J and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Wrap- 
per) " Crater Lake Butter Oregon Creamery Butter Manufactured by Klamath 
Falls Creamery, Klamath Falls, Oregon."
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 as provided by the act of March 4,1923.
On May 25, 1931, the Klamath Falls Creamery, Klamath Falls, Oreg., claim- 
ant, 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 upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$1,000, conditioned in part that it be made to conform to the Federal food and 
drugs act under the supervision of this department.
ABTHXJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.