25670. Adulteration of butter.     TJ. S. v. 20 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree of
condemnation.     Product released under bond to be re-worked.     (F. & D.
no. 36508.    Sample no. 41040-B.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of butter that was deficient in milk 
fat.
On September 9, 1935, the United States attorney for the District of Minne- 
sota, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 29 tubs of butter at St. Paul, 
Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about September 4, 1935, by the R. B. Cobb Co., from "Valley City, N. Dak., and 
' charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was 
labeled in part: "63 pounds net."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that a substance deficient in 
milk fat had been substituted for butter, a product which must contain not less 
than 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
On December 28, 1935, the court found the article to be adulterated as 
charged and ordered it released to claimant, R. B. Cobb Co., under bond to be 
reworked under supervision of the Food and Drug Administration.
W. R GBBGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.