3033. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 13, 16, 12, and 14 Cubes of Butter.    Con¬
sent decree of condemnation.    Product released under bond for recon- 
ditioning-.,   (F, D.'C. No. 6668.    Sample Nos. 43397-E, 43398-E.)
On or about December 20, 1941, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Missouri filed a libel against a total of 55 cubes of butter at Kansas. 
City, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce; 
on or about June 1, 1941, by the Southern Butter Co. from Muskogee, Okla..;. 
and charging that it was adulterated.   The article was labeled in part:  (Box:) 
"Creamery Butter S. C. Borden Co. Chicago Distributor."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that a valuable constituent, milk 
fat, had been in whole or in part omitted from the article and that an article 
containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted 
wholly or in part for butter.
On January 12, 1942, the Southern Butter Company, claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered and 
the product was released under bond for reworking under the supervision of 
the Food and Drug AdniinistratiOn.   '..' 
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