23202. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 17 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond to 
be reworked.    (F. & D. no. 33551.    Sample no. 16723-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to 
contain less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On September 13, 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 17 tubs of butter
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce, on or about August 29, 1934, by the Dexter Creamery Co., from 
Dexter, Minn., 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 prod- 
uct which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat as provided by 
the act of Congress of March 4, 1923.
On September 26, 1934, the Dexter Creamery Co., 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 that 
the product be released under bond conditioned that it be reworked so that it 
contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.