7.8S90. Adulteration of butter. XJ. S. v. Swift & Co. Plea of guilty. Fine, $50. (F. & D. No. 26698. I. S. No. 24746.) 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 District of Nebraska. On October 27, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against Swift & Co., a corporation trading at Columbus, Nebr., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about May 29, 1931, from the State of Nebraska into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of butter which was adulterated. It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a product deficient in milk fat, in that it contained less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, had been substituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat as defined and required by the act of Congres of March 4, 1923, which the said article purported to be. On November 30, 1931, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on hehalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50. AR7HUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.