21893. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S. v. Producers  Creamery Co.     Flea  of
guilty.    Fine, $5.    (F. & D. no. 30255'.    Sample no. 3572-A.)
This case involved 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 December 28, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Producers Creamery Co., a corpora- 
tion, Clinton, Mo., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about July 29, 1932, from the State of Missouri into the 
State of Illinois, of a quantity of butter that 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 substi- 
tuted 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 15, 1934, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.