21015. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. The Merchants Creamery Co., Inc.
Plea of guilty.    Fine, ?10.     (F. & D. no. 29335.    I. S. nos. 36429, 36430.)
This case was based on interstate shipments 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 December 16, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Merchants Creamery Co., Inc., trad- 
ing at Springfield, Mo., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 13 and August 8, 1931, from the State 
of Missouri into the State of Ohio, of quantities of butter that was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substi- 
tuted for buttes, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent of milk 
fat, which the article purported to be.
On April 3, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.