21665. Adulteration of butter.     U.  S. v. Kelson-Ricks  Creamery  Co.     Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. no. 30287.    Sample no. 25245-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 23, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Idaho, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against Nelson-Ricks Creamery Co., a corporation, trading at 
Rexburg, Idaho, alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. on or about September 16, 1932, from the State of Idaho into 
the State of California, of an article of food, butter, which was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information 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 October 10, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on be- 
half of the defendant corporation, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.