19909. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. U. S. v. 32 Cases of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond to be reworked. (No. 4170-A. F. & D. No. 28421.) This action involved the shipment of a quantity of butter, samples of which were found to contain less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, the standard for butter prescribed by Congress. On or about June 2, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 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 32 cases of butter at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce May 19, 1932, by the Monroe City Creamery Co., from Monroe City, Wis., to Chicago, Ill., and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. The records of this department indicate that the product was shipped from Monroe City, Mo., and the shipment was so reported to the United States attorney. It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a substance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality, and had been substi- tuted in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that the article contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article had been sold, shipped, and labeled as butter, which was false and misleading, since it con- ¦ tained less than 80 per cent of milk fat. On June 21, 1932, the Waskow Butter Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant for reworking under the supervision of this department, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the Federal food and drugs act and all other laws. HENEY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.