20067. Adulteration of  butter.     U.S.  v.  11   Cubes   of  Butter.     Product  re¬
leased under bond for reworking.     (F. & D. No. 28474.    Sample No. 
988-A.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, 
samples of which were found to contain less than 80 percent of milk fat, the 
standard prescribed by Congress.
On July 2, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
California, 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 11 cubes of butter, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about June 28, 1932, by Beaver Valley Creamery, 
from Milford, Utah, to Los Angeles, Calif., and charging adulteration in vio- 
lation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Beaver 
Valley Creamery   Beaver, Utah."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 percent of milk fat had been substituted wholly or in 
part for butter.
On July 5, 1932, Joseph Thorup, Los Angeles, Calif., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel and having filed a release bond in the sum 
of $100, a decree was entered ordering that the product be delivered to the 
claimant for reworking under the supervision of this Department. On July 
7, 1932, the product having been reworked, a final decree was entered ordering 
that the release be made permanent, that the bond be exonerated, and that 
claimant pay costs of the proceeding.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.