22170. Adulteration of butter.   U.  S.  v. 6 Tubs  of Butter.   Consent  decree-
of condemnation and forfeiture.   Product released under bond to- 
be reworked.     (F. & D. no. 32381.    Sample no. 66091-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter which was low in milk fat.
On February 19, 1934, the United States attorney for the Southern District of" 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of six tubs of butter- 
at New York, N.Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about February 9, 1934, by the Farmers Creamery Co.. of Belmond,.. 
Iowa, in pool car shipment from Kanawha, 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 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 Congress of March 4, 1923.
On March 13, 1934, S. & W. Waldbaum, Inc., New York, N.Y., claimant, hav- 
ing admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of 
a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was- 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the claimant, upon payment 
of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $150, conditioned that it be 
reworked so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.