27643. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.     IT.  S.  v.  One  Can  of Butter.
Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. & D. No.  40000. 
Sample No. 81650-C.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On June 23, 1937, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Ohio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
Court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of one can of butter at Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, consigned on or about June 19, 1987, alleging that it had been 
shipped in interstate commerce by Curtis & Magmas from Glasgow, Ky., and 
charging adulteration and misbranding 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, which it 
purported to be.
It was alleged to be misbranded in that it was sold as and purported to be 
butter, whereas it was not butter since it contained less than 80 percent of milk 
fat.
On June 24, 1937, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.