18628. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 17 Boxes of Butter.     Consent decree 
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product  released under bond.
(F. & D. No. 27829.    I. S. No. 22491.    S. No. 5786.)
Samples of butter taken from the shipment herein described having been 
found to contain less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, the standard pre- 
scribed by Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the Western District of Washington.
On January 22, 1932, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condem- 
nation of 17 boxes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Enterprise City 
Creamery, Portland, Oreg., on or about January 18, 1932, and had been trans- 
ported from the State of Oregon into the State of Washington, 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, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent of milk fat as 
provided by the act of March 4, 1923.
On January 27, 1932, the Enterprise Creamery Co., of Portland, Oreg., and 
Perry J. Bradley, claimants, having admitted the allegations of the libel and 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released 
to the said claimants upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $450, conditioned that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of 
contrary to the Federal food and drugs act, and all other laws, and further 
conditioned that it be made to conform to the said food and drugs act under the 
supervision of this department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.