21889. Adulteration of  butter.    U.   S.  v.  Marion Delbert   Tomlinson   (NimŽ
rod   Creamery).     Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,   $25.     (F.   &   D.   no.   30185. 
Sample no. 8541-A.)
This case was based on an interstate 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 January 3, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against Marion Delbert Tomlinson, trading as Nimrod 
Creamery, Sebeka, Minn., alleging that on or about August 2, 1932, the said 
defendant had delivered for shipment in interstate commerce from the State of 
Minnesota into the State of Pennsylvania, a quantity of butter that was adul- 
terated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
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 sub- 
stituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat as required by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, 
which the article purported to be.
On January 3, 1934, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
M. Lr. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.