21156. Adulteration of  butter.   V.   S.  v.  Knoxville   Cooperative   Creamery.
Plea of guilty. Fine, S25 and costs. (F. & D. no. 30180. Sample no. 
11877-A.)
This action was based on an interstate shipment of butter, samples of which 
were found to be deficient in milk fat, since they contained less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat, the standard provided by act of Congress.
On May 20, 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 Knoxville Cooperative Creamery, a corpora- 
tion, Knoxville, Iowa, alleging shipment by said company, on or about June 
23, 1932, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, from the State of Iowa 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 which contained less than SO percent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter, a product that should contain not less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923.
On May 31, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.