22719. Adulteration and misbranding of butter. TJ. S. v. Challenge Cream & Butter Association. Plea of guilty. Fine, $26. (F. & D. no. 32096. Sample no. 23154-A.) This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter, samples of which were found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat. On June 16, 1934, 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 Challenge Cream & Butter Association, a corporation, trading at Salt Lake City, Utah, alleging shipment by said company in viola- tion of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 5, 1933, from the State of Utah into the State of Nevada, of a quantity of butter which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled in part: " Blue Ribbon Brand Choice Creamery Butter * * * Distributed By Challenge Cream & Butter Assn, Salt Lake City." 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 should contain not less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of Congress 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 it was labeled butter so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, since it was not butter as defined by the said act of Congress, in that it contained less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat. On July 21, 1934, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $26. M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.