19985. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 14 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond to- 
be reworked.     (No. 11890-A.    F. & D. No. 28582.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, sampler 
of which were found to contain less than 80 per cent by weight of milk! fat, 
the standard prescribed by Congress.
On July 13, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey,, 
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 con- 
demnation of 14 tubs of butter at Newark, N. J., consigned about July 5, 1932,. 
alleging that the article had. been shipped in interstate commerce by the Larson 
Dairy, from Buffalo, Minn., to Newark, N. J., 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.
On July 29, 1932, the Larson Creamery Co., 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, upon payment of costs and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $300, conditioned in part that it be 
reworked so that it comply with the Federal food and drugs act and all other 
laws.
HENBY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.