19702. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S. v. 6 Tubs, More  or Less, of Butter.
Decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under 
bond to be reconditioned.     (F. & D. No. 27832.    I. S. Nos. 43132, 43142.
S. Nos. 5824, 5867.)
Samples of butter from the interstate shipment involved in this action hav- 
ing been found to contain less than 80 per cent by weight 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 Pennsylvania.
On February 5, 1932, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States a libel praying seizure and condemnation of six tubs of 
butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa. On 
February 15, 1932, the libel was amended to cover 12 tubs of butter. It was 
alleged in the libel as amended that the article had been shipped by the Grove- 
port Creamery, from Groveport, Ohio, in part on about February 3, 1932, and 
in part on or about February 10,1932, and had been transported from the State 
of Ohio into the State of Pennsylvania, and that it was adulterated in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
product containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted for 
butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent of milk fat.
On February 17, 1932, Crawford & Lehman (Inc.), Philadelphia, Pa., having 
appeared as claimants for the property, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be re- 
leased to the said claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond 
in the sum of $150 conditioned that it should not be sold or otherwise dis- 
posed of contrary to the laws of the United States or of any State, Territory, 
District, or insular possession, and further, that it be reconditioned under the 
supervision of this department.
HENEY A.  WALLACE,  Secretary of Agriculture.