29589. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 69 Tubs and 35 Tubs of Butter.    Consent
decrees of condemnation.    Product released under bond to be re-worked.
(F. & D. Nos. 43978, 43980.    Sample Nos. 21806-D, 32478-D.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On August 39 and September 3, 1938, the United States attorney for the 
Northern District of Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation 
of 104 tubs of butter at Chicago, Ill.; alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce in two consignments on or about August 16 and 22, 
1938, by A. T. Crouch Creamery Co. from Bloomer, Ark., and from St. Louis, 
Mo., respectively; 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 act 
of March 4, 1923.
On September 13, 1938, the Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libels, judgments of condemnation were entered 
and the product was ordered released under bond, conditioned that it be re- 
worked to comply with the law.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.