19572. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 19 Boxes, et al., of Butter.    Decree
of condemnation  and forfeiture.    Product  released under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 27833.    I. S. No. 42942.    S. No. 5840.)
Samples of butter taken from the interstate shipment involved in this action 
were found to contain less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, the standard 
prescribed by Congress.
On February 10, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel 
praying seizure and condemnation of 37 boxes of butter, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had 
been shipped in interstate commerce by Red 73 Creamery (Inc.), Union City, 
Ind., on or about February 3, 1932, to Philadelphia, Pa., and charging adultera- 
tion 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, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent of milk 
fat.
On February 15,1932, A. F. Bickley & Son, Philadelphia, Pa., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, 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 $800, 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.
AETHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.