21943. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 15 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of   condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product   released  under  bond 
to be reworked.     (F. & D. no. 31771.    Sample no. 51920-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 November 29, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 15 tubs of butter 
at Newark, N.J., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about November 18, 1933, by the Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery 
Association, from Hopkinton, Iowa, 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 December 9, 1933, the Hopkinton Cooperative Creamery Association, 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented 
to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was en- 
tered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released upon
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $400, conditioned 
that it be reworked so as to comply with the Federal Food and Drugs Act.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.