20479. Adulteration    and    Misbranding of    butter.    U.    S.    v.    Springfield
Creamery Co., Inc.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, 85.     (F.  & D.  no.  28204. 
I. S. no. 22649.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, which 
was found to be in violation of the law, since samples contained less than 80 
percent by weight of milk fat, the standard for butter prescribed by Congress, 
and the packages bore no statement of net weight of the contents.
On November 15,1932, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
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 Springfield Creamery Co., Inc., Springfield, Oreg., alleging shipment by 
said company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended, on or about 
February 29, 1932, from the State of Oregon into the State of Washington, 
of a quantity of butter that was adulterated and misbranded.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
a product deficient in milk fat had been substituted for butter, a product 
which must contain not less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat as required 
by the act of March 4, 1923.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously 
marked on the outside of the package.
On November 15, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
B. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.