27208. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 12 Tubs and 4 Tubs of Butter.    Decree
of condemnation.    Product released under bond to be reworked.    (F. &
D. no. 39315.   Sample no. 18800-C.)
This butter was deficient in milk fat.
On March 18, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 16 tubs of butter 
at National Stock Yards, Ill., alleging that it had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about July 1, 1936, by the Sugar Creek Creamery Co., from 
Thayer, Mo., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it was a product containing 
less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat that had been substituted for butter, 
a product which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On April 27, 1937, the Sugar Creek Creamery Co., having appeared as claim- 
ant, and having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be released under bond 
conditioned that it be reworked so that it contained not less than 80 percent 
of milk fat
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.