20284. Adulteration   and   Misbranding of   butter.      U.S.   -v.   Sugar   Creek
Creamery Co.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $100.    (F. & D. no. 27572.    I.S. 
no. 35513.)
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.    Sample cartons also  were 
found to contain less than 1 pound, the declared weight.
On May 13, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Missouri, 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 Sugar Creek Creamery Co., a corporation, trading at Cape Girardeau, 
Mo., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act, on or about June 15, 1931, from the State of Missouri into the State of 
Arkansas, of a quantity of butter that was adulterated and misbranded. The 
article was labeled in part: (Cartons) "Creamery Butter Pasteurized Pure 
and Wholesome Made by Golden Grain Butter Co. Cape Girardeau, Mo. * * * 
One Pound."
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 
substituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, "One Pound", 
borne on the carton, was false and misleading, and for the further reason that 
the article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the pur- 
chaser, since the cartons contained less than 1 pound.
On October 11, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.