20639. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 11 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree 
ordering product released under bond to be reworked.     (F. & D.
no. 29071.    Sample no.  10075-A.)
This action involved 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 prescribed by Congress.
On September 26, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey, 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 11 tubs of butter at Jersey City, N. J., consigned 
by the Harrow-Taylor Butter Co., Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article 
had been shipped- in interstate commerce on or about September 8, 1932, from 
Kansas City, Mo., to Jersey City, N. J., and changing adulteration 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 November 26, 1932, the Harrow-Taylor Butter Co., Kansas City, Mo., 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented 
to the condemnation of the product, judgment was. entered ordering that the 
butter be released to the said claimant upon payment of costs and the execu- 
tion of a bond in the sum of $300, conditioned that it be reworked so that it 
comply with the law.
R. G. TXJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.