30938. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. Mandan Creamery & Produce Co.    Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $20.    (F. & D. No. 42642.    Sample Nos. 56989-C, 35340-D, 
35341-D.)
This product was found upon examination to contain less than 80 percent by 
weight of milk fat.
On March 1,1939, the United States attorney for the District of North Dakota, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against the Mandan Creamery & Produce Co., a corporation, 
Mandan, N. Dak., alleging shipments by it in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about September 27, 1937, and August 3, 1938, from the State of North 
Dakota into the States of New York and Massachusetts of quantities of butter 
that 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 March 4, 1923.
On October 21, 1939, a plea of guilty having been entered, the court assessed 
a fine of $20.
GBOVEB B. TTTT.T., Acting Secretary of Agriculture.