22875. Adulteration of butter. IT. S. v. 182 Tubs of Butter. Consent de- 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond to be reworked.    (F. & D. no. 33406.    Sample no. 65747-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter which contained less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat.
On or about July 9,1934, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 182 tubs of butter at 
Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, 
on or about June 20, 1934, by John Morrell & Co., from Sioux Falls, S. Dak., 
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 9, 1934, John Morrell & Co., claimant, having admitted the allega- 
tions 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 $2,000, conditioned that it be reworked under the super- 
vision of this Department.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.