20827. Adulteration of  butter.    IT.   S.  v.  Briggs  Dairy  Products   Co.     Plea
of   guilty.    Fine,   81   and   costs.     (F.   &   D.   no.   29336.    Sample   no. 
10351-A.)
This case was based on 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 established by Congress.
On November 16, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court an information against the Briggs Dairy Products Co., a 
corporation, Blackwell, Okla., alleging shipment by said company in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about April 7, 1932, from the State of 
Oklahoma into the State of New York, of a quantity of butter that was 
adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
a product containing less than 8 percent by weight of milk fat had been sub- 
stituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent 
of milk fat* which the article purported to be.
On December 27, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $1 and 
costs.
R. G. TUQWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture*