21011. Adulteration of butter.    tJ. S. v. 7 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation and  forfeiture.     Product released  under bond.
(F. & D. no. 30401.    Sample no. 36961-A.).
This case involved a 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 a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 7 cubes of butter 
at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce, on or about March 29, 1933, by the Sentinel Creamery, from Missoula, 
Mont., 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 Sentinel-Missoula Creamery Co., 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 $167, conditioned that it 
be made to comply with the law under the supervision of this Department.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.