21461. Adulteration of  butter.     17.   S.   v.   102  Tubs   of  Butter.     Decree   of
condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond to 
be reworked.     (F. & D. no.  30975.    Sample no.  39824-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to con- 
tain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, the standard for butter estab- 
lished by Congress.
On August 12, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 102 tubs of butter at Boston, 
Mass., consigned August 1, 1933, alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce, by the Milbank Creamery Co., from Ortonville, Minn., 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.
On August 18, 1933, the Pulegone Produce Co., Somerville, Mass., having ap- 
peared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libel, 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 bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned that it be 
reworked under the supervision of this Department, so that it contain at least 80 
percent of butter at.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.