30770. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. -v. John Lingner  (Fairview-Creamery Co.).
Plea of guilty.   Fine, $25.    (F. & D. No. 42697.    Sample No. 44770-D.)
This product contained less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
On April 12, 1939, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against John Lingner, trading as the Fairview Creamery 
Co., Houston, Tex., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act on or about November 4, 1938, from the State of Texas into the 
State of New York of a quantity of butter which was adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged 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 by weight of milk fat, as prescribed by the 
act of Congress of March 4, 1923.
On July 8, 1939, a plea of guilty having been entered on behalf of the 
defendant, the court imposed a fine of $25.
HABBY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.