20682. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 51 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product released under bond to 
be reworked.     (F. & D. no. 29818.    Sample no. 20780-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment 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.
—OB-Ja-ffttary-20,-1933T the United States attorney for the-Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel pray- 
ing seizure and condemnation of 51 tubs of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about January 12, 1933, by the Lisbon 
Cooperative Creamery Co., from Hewitt, Iowa, to New York, N. Y., and charging 
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a prod- 
uct 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 January 25, 1933, the Lisbon Co-operative Creamery Co., Hewitt, Iowa, 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented 
to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, 
and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the claimant 
upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, condi- 
tioned that it be reworked to comply with the law.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.