19283. Adulteration of   butter.     U.   S.   v.   Earl   Meet.    Plea   of   guilty.
Fine, ?20.    (F. & D. No. 26615.    I. S. Nos. 036596, 036598.)
Samples of butter from the shipments herein described having been found to 
contain less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the standard prescribed by Congress, 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
On August 28, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid an information against Earl Meet, 
Manawa, Wis., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and 
drugs act, on or about June 24,1930, from the State of Wisconsin into the State 
of Illinois, of quantities of butter that was adulterated.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
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 required by the act 
of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On November 4, 1931, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $20.
ARTHTXB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.