28932. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S.  v.  Southern Butter  Co.    Plea of guilty.
Fine, $125. (F. & D. No. 40799. Sample Nos. 46745-C, 49506-C, 60427-C, 
60428-C, 60431-C.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On April 25, 1938, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Southern Butter Co., a corporation, 
Muskogee, Okla., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act on or about August 2, 9, 18, and 30, and September 7, 1937. from 
the State of Oklahoma into the State of Illinois of quantities of butter which 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 of milk fat, as prescribed 
by the act of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On May 2, 1938, a plea of guilty having been entered on behalf of the defend- 
ant, the court imposed a fine, of $125.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.