21401. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 15  Cubes and  12  Cubes of Butter.
Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   re- 
leased under bond.     (F. & D. no. 30985.    Sample no. 30892-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 August 2, 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 27 cubes of butter at 
Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce, on or about July 27, 1933, by the West Coast Produce, from Portland, 
Oreg., 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 August 12, 1933, the Fox River Butter Co., Inc., Seattle, Wash., 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 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the claimant upon pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in 
part that, it be reworked under the supervision of this Department.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.