20062. Adulteration of   butter.     U.S.   v.   Ainsworth   Farmers   Cooperative
Creamery  Co.     Plea   of  nolo   contendere.     Fine,  $5.     (F.  &  D.   No.
I.S. Nos. 44960, 44972.)
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 for butter prescribed by Congress.
On August 6, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
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 Ainsworth Farmers Cooperative Creamery Co., a corporation, Ainsworth, 
Nebr., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, on or about October 7, 1931, from the State of Nebraska into the State 
of Iowa, of a quantity of butter that was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been sub- 
stituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent by 
weight of milk fat as defined by the act of March 4, 1923.
On September 19, 1932, a plea of nolo contendere to the information was 
entered on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine 
of $5.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.