81019. Adulteration of butter. TJ. S. v. "Wilmer K. Berger (Berger Creamery 
Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, $50 and costs. (F. & D. No. 42785. Sample 
No. 26874-D.)
This product contained less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat
On November 20, 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 Wilmer K. Berger, trading as the Berger 
Creamery Co., South Sioux City, Nebr., alleging shipment by said defendant 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 31, 1939, from the 
State of Nebraska into the State of New York of a quantity of butter which 
was adulterated.
Adulteration was alleged in that a product which contained less than 80 per- 
cent 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 December 13, 1939, the defendant having entered a plea of guilty, the 
court Imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
GEOVEE B. Hnx, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.