20052. Alleged Adulteration of butter.     U.S. -v.  Trout Brook  Creamery Co.
Tried  to  a jury.     Verdict  of  not  guilty.     (F.  & D.   No.  28093.     I.S. 
No. 30510.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, 
samples of which were found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk 
fat, the standard prescribed by Congress.
On May 28, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Vermont, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against the Trout 
Brook Creamery Co., a corporation, Concord, Vt., charging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 5, 1931, from 
the State of Vermont into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity of butter 
which was alleged to have been adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in the information for the reason that a product 
containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for 
butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat as 
required by the act of March 4r 1923.
On July 14, 1932, a plea of not guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company. On September 21, 1932, the case came on for 
trial and on September 22, 1932, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.