18764. Adulteration of butter.     V. S. v. 15 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of   condemnation  and   forfeiture.    Product   released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 27117.    I. S. No. 26086.    S. No. 5091.)
Samples of butter from the shipment herein described having been found to 
contain less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the standard provided by Congress, 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the Southern District of Ohio.
On August 4, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel (praying seUsure and con- 
demnation of 15 tubs of butter, remaining in the ariginal unbroken {Packages, 
at Cincinnati, Ohio, alleging that the article had been shipped by the Minnesota 
Creamery Co., from St. Paul, Minn./ on or about July 28, 1931, and had been 
transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Ohio, and charging 
adulteratitmln violation, .of the food and- drugs act.   ?   ?      - 
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It was alleged in the libel, tb.at the article was adulterated in that a product 
deficient in milk fat had been substituted for butter, which the article purported 
to be, and in that said article contained less than 80 per cent by weight of Wlk 
fat, the act pf Congress approved March 4, 1923, having prescribed that butter 
shall contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat. v
On September 2, 1931, the Minnesota Creamery Co., St. Paul, Minn., 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 to be. 
reworked under the supervision of this department, upon payment of costs and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $250, conditioned in part that it should 
not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to Federal and State laws.
AETHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Affriculture.