26081. Adulteration and alleged Misbranding of butter.     TJ. S. v. 20 Cartons of
Butter.     Product adjudged adulterated and released under bond to be
reworked.     (F. & D. no. 37678.     Sample no. 48726-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter fat that was deficient in milk fat.
On or about February 20, 1936, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 20 car- 
tons, each containing 120 %-pound prints of butter, at Tallahassee, Fla., alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped on or about February 14, 1936, by the 
Americus Ice Cream & Creamery Co., from Americus, Ga., and charging adulter- 
ation 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 prod- 
uct that should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat Misbranding was 
alleged for the reason that the article was labeled "butter", which was false 
and misleading since it contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On March 1, 1936, I. E. Wilson, trading as Americus Ice Cream & Creamery 
Co., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, the product was 
adjudged adulterated and released under bond conditioned that it be reworked 
and brought up to the legal standard.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.