18708. Misbranding of dried buttermilk:.    U. S. v. 400 Bass of Dried Butter 
milk. Consent decree of condemnation entered. Product ordered 
released to be labeled. (F. & D. No. 26755. I. S. No. 23803. S. No. 
4714.)
r Examination of dried buttermilk from the interstate shipment herein described 
having shown that the quantity of the contents was not plainly and con- 
spicuously marked on the outside of the packages, i. e., the bags containing the 
article, the matter was reported to the United States attorney for the District 
of Kansas by an official of the State of Kansas, commissioned by the Secretary 
of Agriculture.
One or about April 30, 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 400 bags of dried buttermilk, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Topeka, Kans., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Consolidated Products Co., Chicago, Ill., from Sioux City, Iowa, on or 
about February 6, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Iowa into 
the State of Kansas, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and 
drugs act as amended.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the bags 
bore no mark, brand, or label of any kind showing the net weight of the 
contents.
On June 3, 1931, the Consolidated Products Co., Chicago, Ill., having appeared 
as claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered by the court that the 
product be released to the said claimant to be labeled to show the quantity of 
the contents, and that claimant pay costs of the proceedings.
AETHUB M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture.