24424. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 3 Tubs of Butter.    Default decree of
condemnation and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 34790.    Sample no. 27506-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter which contained less than 80 
percent of milk fat.
On December 19, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Mary- 
land, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of three tubs of butter at 
Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com-
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merce on or about December 11, 1934, by Potomac Valley Creamery, from 
Franklin, W. Va., 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 pro- 
vided by the act of March 4, 1923.
On February 18, 1935, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.