21393. Adulteration of  batter.     U.   S.  v.   13  Tabs  and   18  Tabs   of  Batter.
Consent decrees of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased nnder bond. (F. & D. nos. 30961, 30964. Sample nos. 40286-A, 
40742-A.)
These cases involved 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 July 22 and July 29, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 31 tubs of but- 
ter at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce in part on or about July 16, 1933, and in part on or about July 20, 
1933, by Sioux Valley Cooperative Creamery, from Lake Park, Iowa, and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.   '
It was alleged in the libels 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 and August 7, 1933, the Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the claimant upon payment 
of costs and the execution of good and sufficient bonds, conditioned* in part that 
it be reworked under the supervision of this Department.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.