22858. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 19 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product released under bond to 
be reworked.     (F. & D. no. 33229.    Sample no. 6456-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that contained less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat.
On July 10, 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 19 tubs of butter at 
New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about June 30, 1934, by the Saratoga Creamery Co., from Saratoga, 
Iowa, through Maple Leaf Creamery Co., Ridgeway, Iowa, acting as agent, and 
charging adulteration in violation 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 Congress of March 4, 1923.
On July 13, 1934, the Saratoga Creamery, Saratoga, Iowa, 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 $300, conditioned 
that it be reworked so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.