22471. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. -v. 29 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and forfeiture.    Product  released under  bond.
(F. & D. no. 32651.    Sample no. 66093-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that contained less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat.
On February 21, 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 29 tubs of 
butter at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce, on or about February 8, 1934, by the Webster Cooperative 
Dairy Association, from Webster, Minn., and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion 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 March 2, 1934, the Webster Cooperative Dairy Association, claimant, 
having 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 pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $600, conditioned 
that it be reworked so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.