30592. Adulteration of butter.     TJ.  S. v. 315 Tubs, 300 Tubs, and 285 Tubs'Of
Butter. Consent decrees of' condemnation. Product ! released under 
bond for reworking Or denaturing as required. (F. & 'D. Nos. 44545, 
44547, 44572.    Sample Nos. 32917-D, 32950-D, 45608-D.)
Samples taken from this product were found to contain less than 80 percent 
of milk fat. Others contained added mineral oil. In some samples both con- 
ditions were found. 
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On November 17 and 21 and December 1, 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 
900 tubs of butter at Chicago, Ill.; alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about September 17, 24, and 28, 1938, by Deer Creek 
Creamery Co. from Atchison, Kans.; 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* a 
product which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat, as provided 
by act of March 4, 1923; and in that mineral oil had been substituted in part 
for butterfat.
On December 15 and 22, 1938, the Deer Creek Creamery Co., 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 reworked 
or denatured. The butter which was low in milk fat and not otherwise 
adulterated was reworked so that it contained 80 percent of milk fat, and that 
containing added mineral oil was denatured and disposed of for technical pur- 
poses.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.