23877. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. Sioux Valley Cooperative Creamery
Co. Plea of guilty. Fine, 825 and costs. (F. & D. no. 32162. 
Sample nos. 40286-A, 40681-A, 40742-A.)
This case was based on interstate shipments of butter that contained less than 
80 percent of milk fat.
On October 10, 1934, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against the Sioux Valley Cooperative Creamery Co., a cor- 
poration trading at Lake Park, Iowa, alleging shipment by said company in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about June 22, July 16, and July 
20,1933, from the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, of quantities of butter 
which was adulterated.
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 by weight of milk fat, as pre- 
scribed by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to 
be.
On October 23, 1934, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.