19680. Adulteration of butter.    tJ.  S. v.  George Hastriter.     Plea of guilty.
Fine, $10 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 27464.    I. S. Nos. 36342, 37112.)
Samples of butter taken from the shipments herein described were found to 
contain less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, the standard prescribed by 
Congress.
On December 22, 1931, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against 
George Hastriter, McPhersdn, Kans., alleging shipment by said defendant, in 
violation of the food and drugs act, on or about June 25, 1931, from the State 
of Kansas into the State of Illinois, of quantities of butter that was adulter- 
ated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product which contained less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent 
by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923, which the 
article purported to be.
On January 18, 1932, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.