30712. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v.  12 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree of
condemnation.     Product ordered released under bond to be reworked.
(F. & D. No. 45524.    Sample No. 26879-D.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat. 
. On June 17, 1939, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 12 tubs of butter at 
New York, N. Y.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about June 6, 1939, byBellevue Creamery, Bellevue, Iowa, in pool 
car under the name .of Edgewood Farmers Creamery, Dubuque, Iowa; 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.
On June 26, 1939, Watts & Sons, 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, under the super- 
vision of this Department, so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.