18671. Adulteration of butter.    U. S.' v. 6 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product delivered to cbaritable 
Institution.    (F. & D. No. 26435.    I. S. No. 30094.    S. No. 4584.)
Samples of butter from the shipment herein described having been found to 
contain less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the standard prescribed by Congress, 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the Southern District of New York.
On April 8, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condem- 
nation of six tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Farmers 
Elevator Co., Wallingford, Iowa, March 4, 1931, and had been transported from 
the State of Iowa into the State of New York, 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 as provided by law.
On May 11,1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment ot 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the portions of the product passed by a representative of this department 
as fit for human consumption be delivered to a charitable institution.
AETHTTB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.