19978. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter.    U. S. v. 18 Cases of Butter..
Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.    Product   re- 
leased under bond for reworking.     (No. 4169-A.    F. & D. No. 28420.)
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 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 18 cases of butter, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about May 13, 1932, by the Stanford Creamery Co.* 
from Stanford, Ky., to Chicago, Ill., and charging adulteration and misbrand- 
ing in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a substance 
deficient in butter at had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, 
and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in 
part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that 
the article contained less than 80 per cent of butter at. 
-Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it had been sold 
and shipped as, and labeled butter, which was false and misleading, since it 
contained 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 disposed of contrary to the provisions of the food and 
drugs act, or the laws of any State, Territory, District, or insular possession.
HENBY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.