22044. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 11 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation,  forfeiture, and  destruction.     (F.  & D.  no. 31910. 
Sample no. 60517-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter which contained less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat and which contained filth.
On January 4, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 11 cubes of butter at 
Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about December 15, 1933, by the Northern Creamery Co., from 
Great Falls, Mont., 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. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
reason that the article consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed 
animal substance.
On February 9, 1934, the sole intervener, the Sentinel-Missoula Creamery Co., 
having consented to the destruction of the product, judgment of condemnation 
and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that it be destroyed 
by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.