21390. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 7 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. no. 30962.    Sample no. 40712-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 July 13, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of seven tubs of butter at 
Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about July 6, 1933, by C. A. Bulgrin, from Somerset, Wis., 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 July 24, 1933, the Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and 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 good and sufficient bond, conditioned in part that it be 
reworked under the supervision of this Department.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.