27297. Adulteration of   butter.     U.   S.   v.   Producers   Creamery   Co.     Plea    of
guilty.     Fine, 81 and costs.     (F. & D. no. 38601.     Sample no. 14524-C.)
This case involved butter that was deficient in milk fat.
On January 23,1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Mis- 
souri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against the Producers Creamery Co., a corporation, Kirks- 
ville, Mo., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act on or about August 21, 1936, from the State of Missouri into the State of 
Illinois of a quantity of butter that was adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that a product which contained 
less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter, a 
product which should contain not less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, as 
prescribed by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, which the article purported 
to be.
On May 24, 1937, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant and 
the court imposed a fine of $1 and costs.
H. A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.