28229. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 300 Tubs, 150 Tubs, 100 Tubs, and 88
Tubs of Butter. Consent decrees of condemnation. Product released 
under bond for reworking. (F. & D. Nos. 40445, 40498, 40499, 40598. 
Sample Nos. 49606-C, 60427-C, 60428-C, 60431-C.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On or about September 16, 18, and 23, and October 12, 1937, the United States 
attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, acting upon reports by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and 
condemnation of 638 tubs of butter at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had 
been shipped in interstate commerce on or about August 2, 9, 18, and 30, 1937, 
from Muskogee, Okla., by the Southern Butter Co., 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, as provided by the 
act of March 4, 1923.
On October 5 and 26 1937, the Southern Butter Co., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libels and having consented to the entry of decrees, 
judgments of condemnation were entered and the product was ordered released 
under bond for reworking so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.