20227. Adulteration of butter.    U.S. v. 4 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered delivered to 
charitable institution.     (P. & D. no. 28765.    Sample no. 12010-A.)
This case involved 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 4, 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 four 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 or about July 25, 1932, by the Sheldon 
Creamery Co.. from Sheldon, Wis., to New York, N.Y., and charging adultera- 
tion 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 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 provided by the act of March 4, 1923.
On September 2, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that such portions as were fit for human consumption be delivered to a 
charitable institution, and that any portion unfit for food be destroyed.
R. G. TTJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.