21109. Adulteration of   butter.     U.   S.   v.   Des   Moines   Cooperative   Dairy
Marketing; Association, Inc.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50 and costs.
(F. & D. no. 29475.    I. S. nos. 24722, 24745.)
This action 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 prescribed by Congress.
On March 3, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against the Des Moines Cooperative Dairy Marketing 
Association, a corporation, Des Moines, Iowa, alleging shipment by said company 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, in part on or about May 18, and in part 
on or about May 27, 1931, from the State pf Iowa into the State of Illinois, 
of quantities of butter which 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 sub- 
stituted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent by 
weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, which 
the article purported to be.
On May 2, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf of 
the defendant company and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.