27805. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 8 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree of
condemnation.     Product   released   under   bond.      (F.   &   D.   No.   40188. 
Sample Nos. 38551-C, 38555-C.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On August 17, 1937, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of eight tubs of butter 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about August 10, 1937, by the Staunton Creamery from Staunton, 
Va., 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.
On August 24, 1937, the Staunton Creamery, claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and it was ordered that the product be released 
under bond conditioned that it be reworked so that it contain at least 80 percent 
of milk fat.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.