23142. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of condemnation.    Product released under bond to be reworked. 
(F. & D. no. 33493.    Sample no. 16711-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to 
contain less than 80 percent of milk fat.
|   On September 1, 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 10 tubs of but- 
ter at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in intej 
state commerce by the Hills Cooperative Creamery Association, as agent for 
the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Co., George, Iowa, arriving at New Yori, 
on or about August 28, 1934, 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 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, 3923.
On September 7, 1934, the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Co., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered 
that the product be released under bond conditioned that it be reworked so 
that it contain at least 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.