22084. Adulteration of   butter.      U.   S.   v.   Sardis   Creamery   Co.     Plea   of
guilty.   Fine, $35.     (F. & D. no. 29504.    l.S. no. 42708.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter which contained 
less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On December 18, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Mississippi, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court an information against the Sardis Creamery Co., a corpora- 
tion, Sardis, Miss., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about December 8, 1931, from the State of Mississippi into 
the State of Illinois (reshipped by the consignee to New York, N.Y., on or about 
December 14, 1931), and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the information that the article, when shipped by the de- 
fendant company, was adulterated in that a product deficient in milk fat, 
since it contained 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 defined and required by the act of Congress of March 
?4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On April 17, 1934, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.