22298. Adulteration of  butter.    V.  S. v.  Mid-Western Dairy Products  Co.
(Escalante Ice Cream Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D.
no. 30229.    Sample no. 24286-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter which contained less 
than 80 percent of milk fat.
On September 16, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Utah, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against the Mid-Western Dairy Products Co., a corporation 
trading at Salt Lake City, Utah, as the Escalante Ice Cream Co., alleging 
shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
October 15, 1932, from the State of Utah into the State of California, of a 
quantity of butter which 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 
substituted 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 September 30,1933, 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.