22490. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.    IT. S. v. Thomas D. Rider
(Dunlap Creamery Co.).    Plea of guilty.     Fine, $2 and costs.     (F. &
D. no. 31529.    Sample no. 40638-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter that contained less 
than 80 percent of milk fat, and that was not labeled to show the quantity of 
the contents of the packages.
On April 30, 1934, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against Thomas D. Rider, trading as the Dunlap Creamery 
Co., Dunlap, Iowa, alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act as amended, on or about June 9, 1933, from the State of Iowa 
into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of butter which was adulterated and 
misbranded.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
a product which contained- less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923, which the 
article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously 
marked on the outside of the package.
On May 22, 1934, the defendant entered a plea of guilty, and the court im- 
posed a fine of $2 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.