24340. Adulteration of   butter.     tJ.   S.   v.   Farmers   Mutual   Creamery   Co.
Plea of guilty. Fine, $25 and costs. (F. & D. no. 31504. Sample no. 
32514-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter that contained less 
than 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
On October 9, 1934, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court an information against the Farmers Mutual Creamery Co., a cor- 
poration, Monticello, Iowa, alleging shipment by said company in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 3, 1933, from the State of Iowa 
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 by weight of milk fat 
as prescribed 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.