25550. Adulteration of butter. TJ. S. v. Peter J. Goetzinger (Bellevue Creamery).
Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50 and costs.    (F. & D.  no. 34048.    Sample no. 
65737-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter that contained less 
than 80 percent of milk fat.
On July 16, 1935, 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 Peter J. Goetzinger, trading as Bellevue Creamery, 
Bellevue, Iowa, charging shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about June 9, 1934, from the State of Iowa into the 
State of Illinois of a quantity of butter which was misbranded. The article was 
labeled in part: "Hunter Walton & Co. Chicago.   *    *    *   63 Lbs."
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 April 29,1936, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court imposed 
a fine of $50 and costs.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.