19077. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 25 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of   condemnation.    Product   released   under   bond.     (F.   &   D.   No.
27828.    I. S. Nos. 44960, 44972.    S. No. 5423.)
Examination of butter from the shipment herein described having shown 
that the samples contained 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 Iowa.
On October 22, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 25 tubs of butter at Sioux City, Iowa, alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Ainsworth Cooperative Creamery, from Ainsworth, 
Nebr., on or about October 7, 1931, and had been transported from the State 
of Nebraska into the State of Iowa, 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, which should contain 80 per cent of milk fat as provided by the 
act of Congress of March 4, 1923.
On November 7, 1931, the Ainsworth Farmers Cooperative Creamery Co., 
claimant, 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 upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the
sum of $800, conditioned in part that it be reconditioned under the supervision 
of this department, and that it should not be sold or disposed of contrary to 
the food and drugs act or the laws of any State.
AETHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.