889. Adulteration of butter.     U.  S. v. Farmers Cooperative  Creamery AssociaŽ
tion.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50.    (F. D. C. No. §Ģi.    Sample Nos. 44498-D, 
44507-D.) 
On January 9, 1940, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota 
filed an Information against Farmers Cooperative Creamery Association, a 
corporation, Lake Benton, Minn., alleging shipment on or about August 8 and 
16, 1989, from the State of Minnesota into the State of New Jersey of quan- 
tities of butter that was adulterated.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that a valuable constituent, 
milk fat, had been in part omitted therefrom and in that a product which 
contained less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted 
for butter.
On January 9, 1940,"the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court 
Imposed a fine of $50.