30936. Adulteration of butter.     U.  S. v. Farmers  Union Cooperative Creamery
Co.,   Inc.     Plea  ©f guilty.     Fine,  $50 and costs.     (F.  & D.  No. 42765. 
Sample No. 54181-D.)
Examination of samples of this product showed a deficiency in milk fat.
On October 2, 1939, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against Farmers Union Cooperative Creamery Co., Inc., Aurora, 
Nebr., alleging shipment by it in violation of the Food and Drugs Act on or about 
August 1, 1838, from Aurora, Nebr., into the State of Illinois of a quantity of 
butter which was adulterated.
The product was alleged to be adulterated in that a substance containing less 
than SO 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 March 4, 1923.
On October 28, 1939, a plea of guilty was entered and the court imposed a 
fine of $50 and costs.
GBOVEB B. Hnx, Acting Secretary ®f Agriculture.