2377. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 38 Tubs, 15 Tubs, and 15 Tubs of Butter.
Consent decrees of condemnation. Product ordered released under bond 
to be reworked. (F. D. C. Nos. 6141, 6142, 6144. Sample Nos. Q6980-E, 
56981-E, 74548-E.)
On October 20 and 22, 1941, the United States attorney for the Southern Dis- 
trict of New York filed libels against 58 tubs of butter at New York, N. Y., al- 
leging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
October 2 and 7, 1941, by the Farmers Mutual Cooperative Creamery from Sioux 
Center, Iowa; and charging that it was adulterated in that a product containing 
less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter.
On November 3, 1941, the Farmers Mutual Cooperative Creamery, claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libels, judgments of condemnation were 
entered and the product was ordered released under, bond conditioned that it be 
reworked under the supervision of the Food and Drug Aministration so that it 
contain at least 80 percent of milk fat. 
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