25797. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 26% Pounds of Butter.    Default decree
of   condemnation   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   no.   87244.    Sample   no. 
49433-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to be 
below the legal standard of 80 percent milk fat.
On December 14, 1935, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 26^ pounds of
butter at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter 
state commerce on or about December 11,1935, by Jay Miller, from Louisa, Ky., 
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 provided by law.
On January 9, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.