19135. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 14 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation   and  forfeiture.    Product   released   under  bond
for reworking.     (F. & D. No. 27148.    I.  S. No. 38842.    S. No. 5300.)
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 District of Massachusetts.
On October 2, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel of information praying 
seizure and condemnation of 14 tubs of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Boston, Mass., consigned about September 24, 1931, al- 
leging that the article had been shipped by George Freese's Sons Co., Fostoria, 
Ohio, and had been transported from the State of Ohio into the State of 
Massachusetts, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs 
act as amended.
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 the article purported to be.
On October 5, 1931, George Freese's Sons Co., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 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 $250, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of 
contrary to the Federal food and drugs act or the laws of any State, Terri- 
tory, district, or insular possession. It was further ordered that the product be 
reworked under the supervision of this department so that it contain at least 
80 per cent of butterf at.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.