21475. Adulteration of tub butter.    IT. S. v. 9 Tubs of Butter.     Consent de¬
cree   of   condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product   released   under 
bond.     (F. & D. no. 30909.    Sample no. 40700-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 July 12, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of nine tubs of butter 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about July 4, 1933, by W. H. Thiede, from Richland Center, 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 19, 1933, the Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., 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 payment 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.