20481. Adulteration of butter.     V. S. v. Sugar Creek Creamery Co.    Plea of
guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. no. 28165.    I. S. nos. 30759, 34364 to 34368, 
incl.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of quantities 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 September 13, 1932, the United State's attorney for the Eastern District 
of Illinois, 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 Danville, Ill., 
alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about May 29, 1931, from the State of Illinois into the State of Pennsyl- 
vania, and on or about June 11, 1931, from the State of Illinois into the State 
of Connecticut, of quantities of butter that was adulterated. A portion of the 
article was contained in cartons, labeled in part: " Sugar Creek Butter * * * 
This Butter Churned and Guaranteed by Sugar Creek Creamery Com- 
pany   *    *   *    General Offices, Danville, Ills."
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.
On December 8, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.