18822. Adulteration of butter. IT. S. v. 12 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond. (No. 10400-A. F. & D. No. 28355.) This action was based on the interstate 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 prescribed by Congress. On May 12, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, 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 12 tubs of butter at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about May 5,1932, by the Verdigre Creamery Co., from Verdigre, Nebr., to New York, N. Y., 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. Gude Bros., Kieffer Co., New York, N. Y., interposed a claim for the product as agent for the Verdigre Creamery Co., Verdigre, Nebr., admitted the allega- tions of the libel, consented to the entry of a decree, and agreed that the product be reconditioned so that it contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat. On June 3, 1932, 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 $300, con- ditioned in part that it be reworked so that it comply with the Federal food and drugs act and all other laws. HENEY A. WAIXACE, Secretary of Agriculture.