23883. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. Farmers Mutual Cooperative Cream¬
ery   Assoc.    Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,   $25   and   costs.     (F.   &   D.   no.
32199.    Sample no. 40390-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter that contained less
than 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
On October 13, 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 Farmers Mutual Cooperative Creamery Asso- 
ciation, a corporation, Orange City, Iowa, alleging shipment by said company 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about September 14, 1933, from 
the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of butter that 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 must contain not less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat as required 
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.