22860. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 66 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree 
of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond to 
be reworked.     (F. & D. no. 33231.    Sample no. 70765-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that contained less than 80 percent of 
milk fat.
On July 5, 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 66 tubs of butter at New 
York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about June 23, 1934, by the Hi-Quality Dairy Products Co., from Kansas 
City, Mo., 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 10. 1934, the Hi-Quality Dairy Products Co., claimant, having ad- 
mitted 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 payment 
of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned that it 
be reworked so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.