21290. Adulteration of   butter.    U.    S.   v.    SI    Cubes    of   Butter.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product released under 
bond to be reworked.    (F. & D. no. 30649.    Sample no. 37247-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 May 29, 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 51 cubes of butter 
at Seattle, Wash., consigned by the Hill County Creamery Co., alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about May 19, 1933, 
from Havre, 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, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat 
as provided by the act of March 4, 1923.
On June 2, 1933, the Hill County Creamery, Havre, Mont., 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 or- 
dered 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 $700, conditioned that it be 
reworked under the supervision of this Department.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.