20830. Adulteration of butter. V. S. v. 14 Cubes of butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. no. 30402. Sample no. 36962-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 established by Congress. On April 6, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western District of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 14 cubes of butter at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or about March 29, 1933, by the Bitter Root Creamery, from Stevensville, Mont., to Seattle, Wash., 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 product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter. On April 10,1933, the Bitter Root Creamery Co., Stevensville, Mont., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condenanation 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 $175, conditioned that it be made to comply with the law. R. G. TXJGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.