22485. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.     U.  S. v. Farmers Equity
Cooperative   Creamery Association.     Plea  of  guilty.     Fine,  $250.
(F. & D. no. 31495.    Sample no. 23365-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to 
contain less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On April 2, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against the Farmers Equity Cooperative Creamery 
Association, a corporation, trading at Denver, Colo., alleging shipment by 
said company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 20, 
1933, from the State of Colorado into the State of California, of a quantity 
of butter which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled in 
part: " Silverbrook Pasteurized Creamery Butter.   A. & P."
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 defined and required by the act of March 4, 1923, 
which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement " Butter ", borne 
on the label, was false and misleading, and for the further reason that the 
article was labeled so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, since it was 
not butter as defined and required by the said act of Congress.
On May 29, 1934, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $250.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.