20528. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. William F. Becker (De Soto Cream¬
ery).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F. & D. no. 28039.    I. S. no. 36349.)
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 for butter provided by Congress.
On July 8, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Wisconsin, 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 William F. Becker, trading as De Soto Creamery, at De Soto, Wis., ' 
alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on 
or about June 29, 1931, from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, 
of a quantity of butter that was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
a product which contained less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter, which the article purported to be.
On December 5, 1932, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
R. G. TUGWHLL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.