3899. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 50 Boxes of Butter.    Consent decree of
condemnation.    Product   ordered   released  under  bond  for  reworking.
(F. D. C. No. 7769.    Sample No. 98687-B.)
On May 27, 1942; the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts 
filed a libel against 50 boxes of butter at Springfield, Mass., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about May 12, 1942, by 
Bridgeman Russell Co. from Jamestown, N. D.; and charging that it was adulter- 
ated in that a product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had 
been substituted for butter. The article was labeled in part "Butter Gr. A. & P. 
Tea Co., N. Y. Distributors."
On July 29,1942, the Bridgeman Russell Co., Inc., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered and the product 
was ordered released under bond to be reworked under the supervision of the 
• Food and Drug Administration.