28887. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 24 Tubs of Butter.    Decree of condemna¬
tion. Product released under bond to be reworked. (F. & D. No. 42126% 
Sample No. 14219-D.)
This product was deficient in milk fat.
On March 24, 1938, the United States attorney for the District of Massachu- 
setts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 24 tubs of butter at Somerville, 
Mass., consigned on or about March IS, 1988, alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce by the Northwest Dairy Forwarding Co. from St. 
Paul, Minn., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
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, which 
it purported to be.
On April 11, 1938, the Alexandria Cooperative Creamery Association, Alexan- 
dria, Minn., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of 
condemnation was entered, and the product was ordered released under bond 
conditioned that it be reworked so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.