19982. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 18 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond to 
be reworked.     (No. 11877-A.    F. & D. No. 28489.)
This case involved 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 July 8, 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 18 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on June 28, 1932, by the Knoxville Cooperative Creamery, from 
Knoxville, Iowa, 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 it con- 
tained less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the standard provided by act of March 
4, 1923.
The Krenrich-Britten Co. (Inc.), New York, N. Y., interposed a claim for 
the property as agent for the Knoxville Cooperative Creamery, Knoxville, 
Iowa, admitted the allegations 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 July 14, 1932, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
released to the claimant upon payment of costs and-the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $400, conditioned in part that it be reworked so that it comply with 
the requirements of the Federal food and drugs act, and all other laws.
HENBY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.