24181. Adulteration of butter.     U.  S. v.  Eustis  Cooperative  Creamery Co.
Plea of grrallty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. no. 29414.    Sample no. 10397-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter that contained less 
than 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
On August 8, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against the Eustis Cooperative Creamery Co., a corporation, 
Eustis, Nebr., alleging shipment by said company on or about May 3, 1932. 
from the State of Nebraska into the State of New York, of a quantity 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 of milk fat as required by the 
act of Congress of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On March 4, 1935, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.