23928. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 60 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond to 
be reworked.    (F. & D. no. 33232.    Sample no. 70755-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to 
contain less than 80 percent of milk fat.
? On July 3, 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 fifty tubs of butter 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about June 16, 1934, by the Knapp Creamery, from Knapp, 
Wis., 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 milk fat as provided by the 
act of Congress of March 4, 1923.
On July 7, 1934, the Knapp Creamery Co., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judg- 
ment 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 $700, conditioned that it be reworked 
so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.