20805. Adulteration of   butter.    U.    S.   v.    5    Cubes   of   Butter.    Product
ordered released nnder bond to be reworked.     (F. & D. no. 29921. 
Sample no. 20310-A.)
This action 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.
On February 8, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of California, 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 5 cubes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about February 4, 1933, by the B. A. C. 
Dairy, from Cedar City, Utah, to Los Angeles, Calif., and charging adultera- 
tion 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 of milk fat had been substituted wholly or 
in part for butter.
On February 9, 1933, Joseph Thorup, Los Angeles, Calif., having filed a claim 
for the product and having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment was 
entered ordering that the product be released under bond, conditioned that it 
be made to comply with the law. On February 11,1933, the butter having been 
reworked, final decree was entered ordering that the release be made permanent 
and that the bond be exonerated.
R. G. TXJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.