30745. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 97 Tubs and 61 Tubs of Butter.    Consent
decree of condemnation.    Product released under bond to be reworked.
(F. & D. Nos. 45341, 45342.    Sample Nos. 54159-D, 54161-D.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On April 20, 1939, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 158 tubs of butter at 
Chicago, Ill.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about August 15 and 17, 1938, by Farmers Union Creamery Co. from 
Aurora, Nebr.; 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 milk fat, as provided by 
act of March 4, 1923.
On May 8, 1939, L. D. Schreiber & Co., Inc., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libels and the cases having been consolidated, 
judgment of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered released 
under bond conditioned that it be reworked to the legal standard.
HAEET L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.