23091. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 18 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product   released   under   bond 
to be reworked.     (F. & D. no. B3318.    Sample no. 11109-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that contained less than 80 percent 
of milk fat.
On August 3, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 18 cubes of butter 
at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about July 26, 1934, by the Bitter Root Creamery, from Stevens- 
ville, Mont., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be 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 butterfat as provided by the 
act of Congress of March 4,. 1923.
On August 8, 1934, the Bitter Root Creamery, 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 payment of costs and the 
execution of a bond in the sum of $300, conditioned that it be reworked 
under the supervision of this Department.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.